Word: meselson
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Saddam would also have to consider the inevitable outrage of the international community, which has banned the use of biological weapons since 1975. Resort to germ warfare would doubtless provoke devastating reprisals. "Saddam would be insane to use biological agents," says Matthew Meselson, a biological-weapons expert at Harvard University. Still, the Iraqi leader has ignored international opinion before. During the Iran-Iraq conflict, he employed poison gas against Iranian infantry and his own Kurdish population. The main impact of germ warfare on American soldiers may be psychological. Says Robert Weinberg, a germ-warfare expert at M.I.T.: "The very notion...