Biowar
Subtitle: the Nixon administration's decision to end U.S. biological warfare program
By: edited by Robert A. Wampler
Contributors: National Security Archive (U.S.)
Series: The September 11th sourcebooks -- v. 3; National Security Archive electronic briefing book -- no. 58; September 11th sourcebooks -- v. 3.; National Security Archive electronic briefing book -- no. 58.
Publisher: National Security Archive
Published: 2001
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Biological warfare; Sources; Chemical warfare
Description: Perhaps the most troubling and terrifying development in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11th is the emergence of biological warfare as a real, instead of a potential, threat for our government and the public to confront. To provide the historical context for this new threat, the National Security Archive published on October 25, 2001 key declassified documents on President Richard Nixon's decision to halt the U.S. biological warfare program. In this updated briefing book, the Archive is making available the official history of the U.S. Army's activities in the U.S. biological weapons program (see Document No. 26). New revelations in the news now make this history even more vital to understand, since the mailed anthrax that has killed five Americans in recent weeks may have come from the U.S. program, not from foreign sources.
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"October 25, 2001; Updated December 7, 2001."

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