---------- From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Anthrax: American as apple pie [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- AP. 19 October 2001. U.S. Used to Pursue Biowarfare. The United States had a biological warfare program to produce offensive weapons for three decades at Fort Detrick, Md. During that time, it produced weapons using anthrax and at least six other infectious agents. World War II: Joint civilian-military effort developed bombs loaded with bacterial botulinum toxin and anthrax. The war ended before weapons could be completed and used. Cold War years: U.S. scientists went beyond anthrax and botulinum. Brucellosis, tularemia, Q fever, Venezuelan equine encephalitis and food poisoning were developed as war tools. [N.B.] 1960s: Open-air experiments exposed U.S. civilians to benign bacteria in airports, bus stations and the New York City subways. Those experiments showed that a biological attack could easily kill large numbers of civilians. Nov. 25, 1969: Realization of the dangers and increasing criticism of biological weapons led President Nixon to end the U.S. program. 1972: The United States, the Soviet Union and more than 100 other countries signed the Biological Weapons and Toxin Convention, which forbids the development, production and stockpiling of biological arms. 1973: All U.S. stocks were officially destroyed. Defensive germ research continues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews with continuing coverage of WWIII
