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"We can utilize nano-science to create much better drugs to get them where they got to go in the brain.

I can create nano-science and nanotechnology to be able to escort certain drugs across the proliferant barrier which is the blood brain barrier and blood cerebral spine fluid barrier, so I get these things where they got to go.

But I can also utilize nano particulate matter in a very indiscriminate way. The idea here is that I can get that is something called high CNS (central nervous system) aggregation material that is essential invisible to the naked eye and even to most scanners because it is so small that it selectively goes through most levels of filter porosity. These are then inhaled either through the nasal mucosa or absorbed through the oral mucosa, they have high CNS affinity, they clump in the brain or in the vasculature, and they create essentially what looks like a hemorrhagic diathesis, in other words a haemorrhage predisposition or a clog predisposition in the brain.

What I have done is I created a stroking agent.

And it is very, very difficult to gain attribution to do that.

I can use that on a variety of levels, from the individual to the group, highly disruptive. And in fact this is one of the things that is been entertained and examined to some extent by my colleagues in NATO and to those who are working on the wors..use of neurobiological sciences to create populational disruption, very, very worried about the potential for these nano particulate agents to be CNS aggregating agents to cause neural disruption, either as hemorrhagic and vascular disrupters or as actual neural network disrupters because they interfere with the network properties of various neural nodes and systems within the brain."

-Dr. J. Giordano

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) sponsored this talk entitled "Brain Science from Bench to Battlefield: The Realities – and Risks – of Neuroweapons” by Dr. James Giordano on June 12, 2017

Abstract:

The use of sarin gas in Syria and the nerve agent VX to assassinate Kim Jong-nam, and ongoing efforts in brain science by both nations and non-state actors (inclusive of a growing community of do-it-yourself/biohacker scientists) prompt renewed interest in the current and near-term possibilities of developing and employing neuroweapons. Discourse at the most recent meeting of Biological, Toxin, and Weapons Convention (BTWC), and ongoing efforts of a Working Group of the European Union Human Brain Project reinforced the need to more rigorously address research and use of weaponizable brain science.

In this briefing, neuroscientist and neuroethicist Dr. James Giordano of Georgetown University Medical Center discusses how new developments in brain science afford potential utility in military, intelligence and warfare operations, addresses implications of neuroweapons, and details the need for improved identification, surveillance, guidance and governance of brain science that can be used in military and warfare applications, and thus pose defined risk and threat to security interests.

Dr. James Giordano is Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Biochemistry, Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program, and Co-director of the O'Neill-Pellegrino Program in Brain Science and Global Health Law and Policy at the Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC. He is a Senior Researcher and Task Leader of the Working Group on Dual-Use of the EU Human Brain Project, and has served as a Senior Science Advisory Fellow of the Strategic Multilayer Assessment group of the Joint Staff of the Pentagon.

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