UN General Assembly
1952

49. One of the decisive considerations of the military officials of the United States is that bacterial weapons are cheaper and more effective than other weapons, and also that they do not destroy property, which thus falls into the hands of the victorious aggressor without having suffered any great damage. The military “science” of the Western imperialists also praises the “advantages” of bacterial weapons. For instance, we read on page 109 of the book, War in Three Dimensions, by E. J. Kingston-McCloughry: “. . . in one respect do gas warfare and bacteriological warfare appear to hold out advantages over atomic warfare. The destruction which they bring about is destruction only of human life.” 50. On 15 June 1946, A. H. Waitt, Chief of the United States Chemical Warfare Service, wrote in Colliers that it was neither logical nor intelligent to speak of the horrors of toxic gas and bacterial war and then accept atomic war, and that he had no sympathy for speeches on the humanity or inhumanity of weapons.