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...thousands of documents turned over to the U.N., Iraq admitted that as the U.S. mobilized forces to invade Kuwait in November 1990, it had begun filling 191 bombs and Scud missile warheads with deadly biological agents such as anthrax and botulinum toxin. The bombs would have been mounted on missiles, planes or drone aircraft and dropped on enemy troops, fewer than half of whom had received the appropriate germ-warfare vaccinations. Twenty-five Scuds outfitted with biological weapons were aimed at cities in Saudi Arabia and Israel...
...would retaliate with nuclear arms if he did. Deploying the weapons effectively would in any case have been difficult. Still, Administration experts say they were capable of causing thousands of casualties. "It would have been awful," says Matthew Meselson, a germ-warfare expert at Harvard University. For example, botulinum toxin kills by interfering with the nervous system and ultimately paralyzing the respiratory muscles. The Pentagon estimated that just one Scud missile warhead filled with the toxin could contaminate...
...radically new valuable data." Iraq had previously insisted that its biological weapons program was only a low-level research effort and that all agents manufactured had been destroyed before the war started. Now it admits that there were five secret facilities producing a large stockpile of anthrax and botulinum toxin as well as three other types of poisons. Iraq claims the agents were destroyed after...
...prestigious Eli Lilly Award in 1941 for isolating and crystallizing the diphtheria toxin and identifying its chemical characteristics...
...bacterial toxin is released from living bacteria. When the food is cooked, the toxin remains, although the bacteria has been killed...