When Mr. Bush raised the nuclear and missile technology issues with Mr. Putin last month, he got only unconvincing verbal reassurances that Russian scientists would not transfer dangerous technologies.
"Congress acted over and over again in a bipartisan way to reject the president's desire to transfer dangerous terrorists to communities here in the United States….
Furthermore, these surviving bacteria may evolve resistance to both antimicrobials and antibiotics that could be transferred to dangerous pathogens.
On the home front, it tries to keep track of which labs use, store or transfer certain dangerous materials.
American scientists in the 1980's made E. coli, a common bug, more virulent by transferring a dangerous gene from a relative of the plague bacterium.
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The report also argued that the five detainees transferred were too dangerous to be released.
B3 Mrs. Clinton Aids Jailed Spy Hillary Rodham Clinton quietly intervened last week to stop Jonathan Pollard, the American convicted of spying for Israel, from being transferred to a more dangerous unit of the federal prison where he is serving a life sentence.
Within debates about DURC, discussions focus on whether it is appropriate to limit the freedom of scientists to conduct research that is deemed to be inherently "dangerous" if "transferred" to malevolent outsiders, or to restrict publication of the results from that research.
Three years ago, Barack Obama's administration conducted a comprehensive review of the Guantánamo detainees and concluded that about four dozen prisoners couldn't be prosecuted, but were too dangerous to be transferred or released.
