Dual Use Science and Technology, Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Collective responsibility and counter-terrorism

“…In this debate, the roles and responsibilities of research institutions and individual scientists within the web of prevention are stressed. As, for example, Miller (2018b) has argued, the notion of the web of prevention can be seen as an application of the concept of joint actions and collective moral responsibility and, in particular, of the concept of a layered structure of joint actions. All stakeholder groups within the web of prevention in question are jointly responsible for the collective end of preventing the production and use of biological weapons.…”

Collective moral responsibility and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear terrorism: the case of phosphine

“…4. For a detailed discussion of dual-use issues in the chemical industry, see Miller and Feltes (2018). 5.…”

Capability caution in UAV design

“…Dual-use is sometimes defined in terms of a technology or research that can be used both for good and bad purposes; this general problem is referred to as the dual-use dilemma [30]. Reference [28] sites four ethical principles that can be applied to the dual-use dilemma.…”