Title: Clouds of secrecy :
Authors: Cole, Leonard A.,
Date: 1988
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield,
Physical description: xi, 188 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC class: U
Contents: Foreword / Senator Alan Cranston -- Clouds of Secrecy: Introduction -- Infecting the Enemy: Biological Warfare in the Past, and the Road to Testing -- Tests and Legacies -- Living near Gruinard Island -- Fort Detrick's Mysteries -- The Army's Germ Warfare Simulants: How Dangerous Are They? -- Airborne in the U.S.A.: Open Air Vulnerability Tests in Minneapolis, St. Louis, and the New York City Subway System -- The Government on Trial -- Edward Nevin and the Spraying of San Francisco -- The Trial -- New Fears, Old Responses -- Terror or Error: The Yellow Rain Puzzle -- Engineering Genes for Defense: Recombinant DNA Technology and Biological Warfare -- Return to Testing: Field Experiments, the Dugway Issue, and Ethical Questions -- Worries and Ambiguities -- Excerpts: "Information for Members of Congress: U.S. Army Activities in the U.S. Biological Warfare Program," March 8, 1977 -- Excerpts: Army report included in Hearings before the Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research, March 8 and May 23, 1977 -- Excerpts: Reports by Dr. Stephen Weitzman and Dr. J. Mehsen Joseph that refute the army's contentions about the safety of its testing program over populated areas -- Excerpts: Current open air testing from "Biological Defense Program," a report by the Department of Defense, May 1986.