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" "These horrors, Bobby said, were the responsibility of allAmerican citizens, not just the administration's policymakers. "Itis we," he said, "who live in abundance and send our young menout to die. It is our chemicals that scorch the children and ourbombs that level the villages. We are all participants." " [22]Unlike his brothers, Ted Kennedy's position on CBW and related"defense" research was one of moderate tolerance. He allegedthat "society must give its informed consent to technologicalinnovation." On the other hand, he argued that the "prospects ofsignificant medical advances" surely outweigh the "hazards ofsaying no" to such exploration. "The particular field of DNAsplicingresearch," he commented not long after Bobby'sassassination is "far from being an idle scientific toy." [23]Ted Kennedy, I also learned that afternoon in the governmentdocuments library, had been appointed to serve as vice presidentof NATO during the Nixon and Ford administrations. [24]Onward and UpwardWith Jack and Bobby out of the way, the King-led civil rightsmovement in disarray, and Ted on board and politicallyneutralized, the manufacturers of war and biological weapons goton with their business.Researchers at the NCI were now hard at work filling the DOD'sorder for AIDS-like viruses. Because of the adverse politicalclimate, and Nixon's superficial endorsement of the Genevaaccord, funding needed to be secured covertly through an"amendment to the appropriation bill for the Departments ofLabor and of Health, Education and Welfare." [25]This was how it came to pass that Fort Detrick - the world'slargest and most active biological weapons facility - was virtuallyovertaken by the NIH and NCI for allegedly "peaceful uses." Thecost of the conversion (approved by the U.S. Senate) was $15million. [25]"The proposals by the National Institutes of Health were judgedthe most meritorious and seem to have had the agreement inprinciple of Mr. Robert Finch, previous Secretary of theDepartment of Health, Education and Welfare, and Dr. LeeDubridge, former science adviser to the President. . . ." [25]All of Fort Detrick's staff were, as Nature reported, "lookingforward with great expectation to taking on the health researchprojects the National lnstitutes of Health would assign thelaboratories. . . ." Since many scientists at Fort Detrick were "inany case involved in basic research and some are alreadycooperating in projects with the National Cancer Institute, therewould not be much of a shift." [25]