It pressed the international development secretary Justine Greening to move quickly and decisively to guard against a repeat of the disaster, which has claimed the lives of almost 7,000 people in west Africa.
Asked to suggest military priorities for brain research, the US National Research Council pressed for the development of improved cognitive enhancers to add to the existing drugs.
In this capacity, Parsons pressed for the development of improved nuclear weapons.
These accusations, bolstered by the 1992 defection to the United States of Ken Alibek, the No. 2 scientist in the secret Soviet program, led American scientists at the Army's biological defense laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., to press for the development of a more modern vaccine.
He worked on the Manhattan Project and, after the war, pressed for development of the hydrogen bomb.
It was, then, an action seemingly designed to provoke the ire of the games press and the development community.
In the 15th century the arrival of Greek scholars in Europe from the collapsing Byzantine Empire and the introduction of the printing press spurred the development of scientific, humanistic, and individualist thought, while the expansion of ocean navigation by European explorers spread European norms throughout the world and broadened the intellectual and geographic horizons of western Europe.
Instead of holding trusts to the same standards as companies by forcing them to make their end-owners publicly known, the prime minister argued that the EU should instead press the Organisation for Cooperation and Development and the G20 - the global bodies that have led progress on international tax reform - to agree a global framework for such information-exchange deals.
"It also means that the way is now clear to get our refund for last year, and to press ahead with the development of the Community".
Though he recognizes that a reliable technology for intercepting incoming warheads has yet to be perfected, he seems determined to press ahead with the development of a system that could cost as much as $100 billion over the next 20 years.
