Word: cb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chemical and biological agents have always been among the most repugnant weapons in the nation's arsenal. The Pentagon, however, has insisted that development of these arcane armaments was necessary to match the Soviet capability of waging CB warfare. Last week President Nixon rebuffed the generals' argument. He announced that the U.S. would never use germ warfare-either offensively or defensively-and ordered the existing stocks of deadly toxins destroyed. As for remaining lethal chemical weapons, the President reiterated the longstanding American policy that they would only be used in retaliation for a similar attack...
...wise and practical decision. Prodded by growing congressional concern and press criticism of CB activities, Nixon launched a review of the program last March. The investigation showed that the Army had developed stocks of deadly diseases such as psittacosis (parrot fever) which could be sprayed over large areas to infect food and water. People in the psittacosis target site would develop acute pulmonary infection, chills, fever; some would become delirious, and ten percent might die. Other diseases, which the Army was prepared to massproduce, were equally lethal, including anthrax, Q-fever and tularemia (rabbit fever...
...America's responsibility to show the world the way to abolish CB warfare, Meselson's activity reflects the idea that it is the scientists' responsibility to convince America to do it. Scientists do not usually lead political movements for a variety of reasons, including the fact they do not want government to restrict their freedom in science, so they reciprocate in advance. But on certain issues, these men who create in laboratories feel that they understand their offspring better than the government which charges itself with the responsibility of bringing up the child. It happened to physicists after World...
...months before the U.S. struck against Japan. Scientists who were used to the free channels of communication which have characterized the profession for centuries forced themselves to develop the weapon for their country in an emergency, with little discussion of the virtues of the plan. CB warfare, on the other hand, is being developed largely in the open...
Only after the war could physicists express their fear of what they had created. But in journals of recent years, much has been written about CB weapons. The U.S. is not making any attempt to hide the fact that it is doing research...