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Imwishfully thinking the White House might

even be holding some step like the one advocated
up its sleeve. It would make sense to abrogate
non~lethals iff the rest of the world does with
equal formality. (I'm not oblivéous that counter. _
insurgency does get a special advantage from
non-lethals, in principle ; but it doesn't seem
to work out that way in practice.)

Getting non-lethals into the Protocol in a for-
mal way should strengthen your hand in arguing
that chemical weapons cannot be dealt with in
simple, global fashion like biologicals.

All the best,

 

 

—_ PROFESSOR JOSHUA LEDERBERG

\ Department of Genetics

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