Genetic Bombs -- This Will Make You Sleep a Lot Easier

Just in time for Halloween, the British Medical Association has a paper out on weapons designed to target specific ethnic groups. Biotechnology, Weapons and Humanity II warns that construction of genetic weapons "is now approaching reality." As if we didn't have enought to worry about terrorists getting chemical or biological weapons. The report says "genetic bombs" could release biological agents that would only react with certain DNA. Great. Genocide in a can. (Guardian)