Dr James Giordano: This is why it becomes so important to understand the novelty and the viability of neurosciences being leveraged as weapons.
We then have the use of nanoparticulate agents; aerosolizable nanomaterials that can be breathed in and disrupt blood flow and neurological network activity; that can be used as an enclosed weapon, or perhaps that can be used as a more broad weapon of disruption and destruction.
We also have the capability to utilize nanomaterials to get electrodes into a head and to create a vast array of viable sensors and transmitters.
This is DARPA’s N-Cubed (N3) program; Next Generation Non-invasive Neuromodulation, utilizing these techniques and technologies to create vast arrays of implantable electrodes that need not be put into the brain surgically, that are then, able to read from the brain and write into the brain remotely, in real time.
And there is a rapid pace. Prizes are big economically in terms of power, as well.
But there are risks and hazards. Yeah, there are conventions that are out there. But the question that arises, are these conventions not just necessary, but are they sufficient? These international signatory treaties have suggested that no, they’re not.
They’re really not keeping their finger on the pulse of the rapid development of brain sciences – not only within the United States and its allied nations, but internationally – and sometimes in programs that utilize commercial veiling to be able to then hide behind in terms of what’s being made available to make their military intelligence personnel better, to develop a whole arsenal of weapons, both kinetically and non-kinetically, that can then detriment the performance of competitors and adversaries.
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