Lets Raise An Army Of The Living,

from the dead,

sounds like the plot of a sci-fi or horror movie, but it could become a fact, Sergei Shoigu, the Défense Minister of Russia, has come up with a new strategic idea, he wants to clone an entire army of ancient warriors! He proposes to use the DNA of 3,000-year-old Scythian warriors, as Popular Mechanics details:

“Of course, we would like very much to find the organic matter and I believe you understand what would follow that,” Shoigu told the Russian Geographical Society. “It would be possible to make something of it, if not Dolly the Sheep. In general, it will be very interesting.”

photograph Russian Geographical Society, to date no one has cloned a human being. But scientists have successfully executed the therapeutic cloning of individual kinds of cells and other specific gene-editing work, and of course, there are high-profile examples of cloning pretty complex animals. Earlier this year, for example, scientists cloned an endangered U.S. species for the first time: a black-footed ferret whose donor has been dead for more than 30 years, it should be noted that human cloning is explicitly illegal, but, the U.S. hasn’t banned the gene editing of embryos, perhaps both super powers are going to create the long dead in to super soldiers?