Word: meselson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meselson first became involved in the chemical-warefare controversy during a three-month stiut as a consultant in the arms control and disarmament agency in 1963. He campaigned diligently, though quietly, throughout the Kennedy and Johnson years...
...year behind-the-scenes effort by Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, paid off last Tuesday when President Nixon announced his decision to curtail American chemical and bacteriological warfare (CBW) capability...
...time of the Nixon administration, he had become a prominent expert, and was able to persuade many people that chemical weapons are useless, given a nuclear capability, and that possession of them only furthers the danger of their proliferation. Informed sources give Meselson principal credit for influencing the recent policy shift...
...Meselson said last night, however, at a meeting in Bernard Hall, that an American agreement not to use lethal or incapacitating gas might possibly exclude, if the Senate should so interpret it, tear gas and plant-destroying chemicals...
...long-range interests dictate that we not use any kind of gas in war, and that we seek an interpretation of the Geneva Protocol that forbids the use of all gas in war." Meselson said after the meeting...