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Centers for Disease Control
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/default.htm
Read about various diseases caused by bioweapons, including anthrax, botulism, and brucellosis.
Frontline: Plague War
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plague/
Learn more about biological weapons and read an interview with Matthew Meselson.
NOVA: Bioterror
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bioterror/
Explore the threat of bioterrorism in companion Web site to a program broadcast in November 2001.
Anthrax Island
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/10/29/world/main316169.shtml
Looks at renewed interest in the remote Scottish island where Paul Fildes conducted anthrax tests.
Operation Whitecoat
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week708/cover.html
This program covers the history and ethical implications of Operation Whitecoat.
Whitecoat Retrospective
http://www.armymedicine.army.mil/news/releases/20050318research.cfm?m=3&y=2005
U.S. Army article looks back at Operation Whitecoat 50 years after it began.
What You Should Know about Biological Warfare (1952)
http://www.archive.org/details/WhatYouS1952
View a Cold War era Civil Defense film on how to protect ourselves from biological warfare.
Douglas MacArthur
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/macarthur/
Read about the American General who ran occupied Japan after the Allied Victory and the war crimes trials held in Tokyo.
Richard Nixon
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/37_nixon/index.html
Learn about the president who ended America's biological weapons program.
Race for the Superbomb
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb
Read about the Cold War competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build more powerful nuclear weapons.
Franklin Roosevelt
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/32_f_roosevelt/index.html
Learn more about the president who authorized the commencement of America's biological weapons program.
Victory in the Pacific
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pacific/
This site provides information about the World War II battles between the U.S. and Japan.
Alibek, Ken with Stephen Handelman. Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It. New York: Random House, 1999.
Balmer, Brian. Britain and Biological Warfare: Expert Advice and Science Policy, 1930-65. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave, 2001.
Barenblatt, Daniel. A Plague upon Humanity: The Hidden History of Japans's Biological Warfare Program. New York: Harper Collins, 2004.
Carroll, Michael Christopher. Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory. New York: William Morrow, 2004.
Cole, Leonard A. Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests over Populated Areas Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1988.
Guillemin, Jeanne. Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
_____. Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
Harris, Robert and Jeremy Paxman. A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret Story of Chemical and Biological Warfare. New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.
Harris, Sheldon. Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American Cover-up. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Mangold, Tom and Jeff Goldberg. Plague Wars: The Terrifying Reality of Biological Warfare. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999.
Miller, Judith, Stephen Engelberg and William Broad. Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret Wars. New York: Touchstone, 2002.
Regis, Ed. The Biology of Doom: The History of America's Secret Germ Warfare Project. New York: Henry Holt, 1999.
Tanaka, Yuri. Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.
Wheelis, Mark, Lajos Rózsa and Malcolm Dando, Editors. Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons since 1945. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Furmanski, Martin with Malcolm Dando. "Midspectrum Incapaciant Programs." Chapter 12, Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons since 1945. Wheelis, Rózsa and Dando (eds). Harvard University Press, 2006.
_____ with Mark Wheelis. "Allegations of Biological Weapons Use." Chapter 13, Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons since 1945. Wheelis, Rózsa and Dando (eds). Harvard University Press, 2006.
_____. "Misperceptions in Preparing for Biological Attack: An Historical Survey." Biological Disasters of Animal Origin. Hugh-Jones, Martin (ed). OIE Revue scientifique et technique vol 25(1) 2006: pp 53-70.
_____. "Military Interest in Low-lethality Biochemical Agents: The Historical Interaction of Advocates, Experts, Pragmatists and Politicians." Scientist's Working Group on Chemical and Biological Weapons Center for Arms Control and NonProliferation. Background paper for the June 2005 Symposium in Geneva, Switzerland: Incapacitating Biochemical Weapons: Scientific, Military, Legal and Policy Perspectives and Prospects.
Preston, Richard. "The Demon in the Freezer." The New Yorker. July 12, 1999, pp. 44-61.
Preston, Richard. "The Bioweaponeers." The New Yorker. March 9, 1998, pp. 52-65.
Tucker, Jonathan B. "A Farewell to Germs." International Security, vol 27, (Summer 2002), pp 107-148.
______ and Raymond A. Zilinskas, Editors. "The 1971 Smallpox Epidemic in Aralsk, Kazakhstan, and the Soviet Biological Warfare Program." Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Occasional Paper No. 9.
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