I have no serious concerns with the US' good intentions, nor their ability to properly manage such a program. What I fear, however, is that this action undermi

I have no serious concerns with the US' good intentions, nor their ability to properly manage such a program. What I fear, however, is that this action undermines the Biological Weapons Convention[0]. The convention explicitly allows for research such as this, yes. Nonetheless, it effectively worked as a moratorium on such research, with the US leading by example. This program creates a situation much like nuclear research, where civil and military use cases exist on a continuum, with the first often being used to cover the second. Note how biological agents, where the US had the moral high ground, have entirely disappeared. Meanwhile, nuclear and chemical agents, which can be produced under the cover of closely related civil industries, are still very much threatening (and killing) people today. [0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_Weapons_Convention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_Weapons_Convention