CLones as weapons? (was Re: freedom vs even distribution)

Chuck Kuecker (ckuecker@mcs.net)
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:30:41 -0500

At 06:19 PM 6/16/99 +0200, Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
>Is medical technology harmless? It can be used to create biological
>weapons, and there was at least one media hoax that Saddam had looked
>into cloning. Any technology has dangerous possibilities, but some are
>more obvious than others.
>

How does the ability to clone organisms become a weapon? Conventional biological weapons seem much more easily obtained and produced.