Word: meselson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After listening to Meselson inveigh against biological warfare, one wonders how anyone anywhere could be in favor of it. Meselson says it is militarily inconvenient, socially disastrous, and no more humane than any other form...
...group of American scientists--led by two Harvard professors--is trying to convince President Johnson to abandon the project. Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, and Dr. John T. Edsall, professor of Biological Chemistry, have collected the signatures of over 5000 scientists in support of a letter to Johnson asking him to stop using these weapons in Vietnam, and to "categorically declare the intention of the U.S. to refrain from initiating the use" of them in the future...
...exact range a virus will cover, the way they can for a fusion blast. Resistance to the disease would be unknown, and would vary with the victims. The problems of delivering the dose, which would have to be in the form of an aerosol cloud, are technically difficult, Meselson suggests. "Even if it could be improved in the remote future," he says, military control "would suffer along...
...Meselson admits that CB weaponry is less unpredictable as a strategic weapon. But if we are interested in larger areas, we already have the Bomb...
Therefore, Meselson maintained, the United Staets, which spends about $200 million yearly on such weapons development, should do what it can to propagate a disdain" for biological and chemical warfare research...