Rutherford, "Synthetic Biology and the Rise of the 'Spider-Goats.' "

126 became a threat to native trees and plants

Richard J. Blaustein, "Kudzu's Invasion into Southern United States Life and Culture," 2001, www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/ja/ja_blaustein001.pdf.

127 chain reaction in the ocean and create an unimaginable ecological Armageddon

Al Gore, "Planning a New Biotechnology Policy," Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 5 (1991): 1930.

128 who were confident that such an event was absurdly implausible

Ibid.

129 diversion of trillions of dollars into weaponry

Wil S. Hylton, "How Ready Are We for Bioterrorism?," New York Times Magazine, October 26, 2011.

130 threatened the survival of human civilization?

George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sam Nunn, "A World Free of Nuclear Weapons," Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2007.

131 are now often described as probably overblown

Wil S. Hylton, "Craig Venter's Bugs Might Save the World," New York Times Magazine, June 3, 2012.

132 "I don't think anyone knows"

Ibid.

133 is the possibility of a new generation of biological weapons

Alexander Kelle, "Synthetic Biology and Biosecurity," EMBO Reports 10 (2009): S23S27.

134 Soviet Union in a secret biological weapons program

Ibid.

135 "to attack genetically specific sub-populations"

Ibid.

136 publishing the full genetic sequence that accompanied their papers

Ibid.

137 involved in monitoring genetic research that could lead to new bioweapons

National Inst.i.tutes of Health, Office of Science Policy, "About NSABB," 2012, http://oba.od.nih.gov/biosecurity/about_nsabb.html.

138 research teams working on projects considered militarily sensitive

Sample, "Nature Publishes Details of Bird Flu Strain That Could Spread Among People."

139 federally funded research into the cloning of human beings

Center for Genetics and Society, "Failure to Pa.s.s Federal Cloning Legislation, 19972003," http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=305.

140 legal implications of human cloning

Mary Meehan, "Looking More Like America?," Our Sunday Visitor, November 3, 1996, http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/LOOKLIKE.TXT.

141 government-financed research program into ethics

Edward J. Larson, "Half a t.i.the for Ethics," National Forum 73, no. 2 (Spring 1993): 1518.