Is CRISPR a National Security Threat?
/National Security Implications of Gene Editing
“CRISPR-Cas9 is here and now, he pointed out. “Gene editing has a number of near term and longer term ramifications that … have implications for national security, intelligence and defense,” he said.
If the research goes clandestine, the technology could be used to modify various physiological functions in humans both before birth and perhaps key operational points or optimized points after birth, he said.
With genomic knowledge of weaknesses and susceptibilities to certain diseases, populations could be targeted in order to cause instability in societies.”
