This represents something of a new frontier.

The brain, as perhaps, as I've called, the new battlescape of the 21st century.

We don't view these as weapons of mass destruction, per se.

These are more weapons of mass disruption.

Hey, welcome back to the Modern War Institute podcast.

I'm John Amble, editorial director at MWI,

and this episode features a conversation with a really fascinating guest, Dr. James

Giordano. Among his many professional appointments, he is a professor at Georgetown University

where he is the chief of the neuroethics studies program and leads the subprogram in military

medical ethics at the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics. He studies neuroscience and

neurotechnology, including how those fields overlay on the conduct of military operations. In the

conversation, he discusses several advancements in neuroscience and technology, what their military

applications might be, and also what ethical implications these developments and their applications

bring forth. Before we get to the conversation, as always, just a few quick notes. First, if you

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All right, enjoy the podcast. Dr. James Giardano, thanks very much for joining us and having this conversation.

I want to start, I just heard a presentation that you gave at this conference hosted by Treydoc, mad scientist,

in which you talked about neuroscience and technology.

One of the things that struck me and I think struck a lot of people in the audience was when you just sort of gave a sense of the scope of this.

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