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Sci-Fi Superheroes

By Nicholas Turse, Tomdispatch.com. Posted October 16, 2004.


By using high technology and cutting edge biomedicine, the military hopes to create an entire army of Captain Americas – a fighting force made up of super-soldiers whose human-ness has been all but banished.

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Nicholas Turse is doctoral candidate at the Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He writes regularly for Tomdispatch on the military-corporate complex as well as for the Village Voice.

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