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Inspired by: other IGOs » Terrorists invent ways to utilize bioengineering for bioterrorism

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Originally submitted by: Tuomo Kuosa
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unpublished

Source of inspiration

Other International inter-governmental organisations (e.g. OECD, UNESCO, APEC)

The source of the Wild Card is

Monitor Project of Singapore

Headline

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Terrorists invent ways to utilize bioengineering for bioterrorism

Description

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Please describe the Wild Card (approx. 150 words)

The democratization of bioengineering capabilities increases the opportunity for innovation as well as the risk of bio-error and bioterror. Terrorists infiltrate to the field of science inorder to produce new types of weapons.

Keywords

bioterrorism, bioengineering, terrorists, innovation

Type of event

Human planned (e.g. terrorist attack or funded scientific breakthrough)

Type of emergence

	please select	(if any) describe related trend or situation
		(if any) describe related trend or situation
A new development/situation (e.g. a Romani state is established in central Europe; A message from an alien civilisation existing on a distant planet is received and understood, etc.

Historical parallels

Terrorists have been capable of infiltrate to science before, this is just a new field to be utilized

Type of systems affected

Both

Classification

Undesirable

Importance

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Level 3: important for the European Union

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