INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
showing once again that technological progress can be a double-edged sword.As highlighted in a report from the Middlebury Institute of
capabilities via stealthy routes, potentially bypassing any of the traditional watchdog systems designed to defend against such states
putting together their own weapons of mass destruction.Robert Shaw, one of the co-authors of the multi-institutional report which was also
recently highlighted in Scientific American, warns that advances in technology like 3D printing are outstripping the ability of authorities
highlighted is that currently, if a nation wishes to make sarin gas, it must obtain a particular kind of noncorrosive metal piping which is
an obvious red flag as to its intention.However, with 3D printing, the potential arises that a rogue state could have the ability to produce
the necessary piping in its own backyard, unbeknownst to the watchdogs keeping an eye on the possible production of WMDs.Before we all get
too panic-stricken, however, it should be noted that these experts are also quick to point out that the potential threat from 3D printing or
uncertain terms that developments in the tech world should be monitored with a view to the repercussions they might have in terms of
manufacturing WMDs.The fact is that to produce such home-grown WMDs, as it were, would require a massive amount of technical knowledge and
