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Appendix A: Timeline
Pages 51-54

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... 1972 Draft of Biological Weapons Convention text 1973 Recombinant DNA methodologies in place 1974 Moratorium on recombinant DNA 1975 Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA 1975 Biological Weapons Convention established 1976 National Institutes of Health (NIH) issues initial guidelines for research involving recombinant DNA.
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From page 52...
... released 1990 Ability to reverse engineer a negative strand RNA animal virus 2004 Publication of NRC report Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism (aka the Fink Report) 2005 First meeting of the National Science Advisory Board on Biosecurity (NSABB)
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... February Publication of WHO's "Report on Technical Consultation on H5N1 Research Issues" (see Appendix B) March 29 Publication of "United States Government Policy for Over sight of Life Sciences Dual Use Research of Concern" (see Appendix B)
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