In his Sept. 8 Slate.com column, titled “Can Brain Research Keep Us Safe?” Penn’s Jonathan Moreno ponders if neuroscience research, or “neurosecurity,” can aid anti-terrorism efforts in a post-9/11 world.
 
Moreno is a Penn Integrates Knowledge professor with joint appointments in the Perelman School of Medicine’s Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and the School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of History and Sociology of Science. He holds the David and Lyn Silfen University Professorship of Ethics.
 
He is the author of the 2006 book Mind Wars and the forthcoming The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America.
 
In Slate, Moreno writes, “Human conflict is often associated with the emergence of a new science or technology. The Civil War’s Gatling gun changed battlefield tactics and led to modern machine guns, like the M61, that are still in use. World War I's chemical weapons proved difficult to manage in the field, provoked nearly universal revulsion, and became the object of international law and a remarkably successful arms control regime. World War II's atomic bomb was the punctuation mark at the end of the war in the Pacific.”
 
Moreno’s full column is available at http://www.slate.com/id/2303285.
 
Additional links of interest:
http://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8145264
http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/people/moreno
http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/jonathan-moreno-and-christopher-murr…