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SOVIET BIOWARFARE RESEARCH. "Even though they had just signed the BTWC, the Soviet Union established Biopreparat, a gigantic biowarfare project that, at its height, employed more than 50,000 people in various research and production centres. The size and scope of the Soviet Union's efforts were truly staggering: they produced and stockpiled tons of anthrax bacilli and smallpox virus, some for use in intercontinental ballistic missiles, and engineered multidrug-resistant bacteria, including plague. They worked on haemorrhagic fever viruses, some of the deadliest pathogens that humankind has encountered." http://lnkd.in/dnjsN5T View in LinkedIn

SOVIET BIOWARFARE RESEARCH. "Even though they had just signed the BTWC, the Soviet Union established Biopreparat, a gigantic biowarfare project that, at its height, employed more than 50,000 people in various research and production centres. The size and scope of the Soviet Union's efforts were truly staggering: they produced and stockpiled tons of anthrax bacilli and smallpox virus, some for use in intercontinental ballistic missiles, and engineered multidrug-resistant bacteria, including plague. They worked on haemorrhagic fever viruses, some of the deadliest pathogens that humankind has encountered." http://lnkd.in/dnjsN5T View in LinkedIn

SECRET HUMAN EXPERIMENTS in the US have been funded by the US government, US military, CIA, and private corporations, and public outrage led to congressional investigations and hearings. In the case of biological agents, this includes reports secret infections of gonorrheal cultures, bubonic plague, herpes, malaria, hepatitis, cancer, whooping cough, yellow fever, dengue fever, encephalitis, beriberi, cholera, tuberculin, and influenza. Other potent chemical warfare agents were also secretly sprayed on military personnel. http:/http://lnkd.in/dvg_Mpu View in LinkedIn

DENIAL OF RESPONSIBILITY ON PROJECT 112. "The GAO scolded the U.S. Department of Defense's (DOD) 2003 decision to stop searching for people affected by the tests was premature. The GAO report also found that the DoD made no effort to inform civilians of exposure, and that the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is failing to use available resources to inform veterans of possible exposure or to determine if they were deceased." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Biological_Weapon_Testing View in LinkedIn

PROJECT 112."In February, 2008, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released report GAO-08-366 ...The report stated that tens of thousands of military personnel and civilians may have been exposed to biological and chemical substances through DOD tests. In 2003, the DOD reported it had identified 5,842 military personnel and estimated 350 civilians as being potentially exposed during the testing, known as Project 112." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Biological_Weapon_Testing View in LinkedIn

USING MOSQUITOES AS VECTORS. "During the 1950s the United States conducted a series of field tests using entomological weapons. Operation Big Itch, in 1954, was designed to test munitions loaded with uninfected fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis). In May 1955 over 300,000 yellow fever mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti) were dropped over parts of the U.S. state of Georgia to determine if the air-dropped mosquitoes could survive to take meals from humans. The mosquito tests were known as Operation Big Buzz. The U.S. engaged in at least two other EW testing programs, Operation Drop Kick and Operation May Day." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Biological_Weapon_Testing View in LinkedIn

HUMAN TESTING AT PORTON DOWN. "Tests were carried out on servicemen to determine the effects of nerve agents on human subjects, with one recorded death due to a nerve gas experiment. There have been persistent allegations of unethical human experimentation at Porton Down, such as those relating to the death of Leading Aircraftman Ronald Maddison, aged 20, in 1953. Maddison was taking part in sarin nerve agent toxicity tests. Sarin was dripped onto his arm and he died shortly afterwards." http://lnkd.in/dGn9k4h View in LinkedIn

PORTON DOWN UK. "When World War II ended, the advanced state of German technology regarding nerve agents such as tabun, sarin and soman surprised the Allies and they were eager to capitalise on it. Subsequent research took the newly discovered German nerve agents as a starting point, and eventually VX nerve agent was developed at Porton Down in 1952." http://lnkd.in/dGn9k4h View in LinkedIn

SUPER-POLLUTED SITE. "In June 2008 the Environmental Protection Agency said it planned to add the base to the Superfund list of the most polluted places in the country. On 9 April 2009, "Fort Detrick Area B Ground Water" was added to the list which currently includes 18 other sites within Maryland." http://lnkd.in/dPk3hzT View in LinkedIn

POW SUBJECT EXPERTISE. "Doctor Jeffrey Alan Lockwood claims that the biological warfare program at Ft. Detrick began to research the use of insects as disease vectors going back to World War II and also employed German and Japanese scientists after the war who had experimented on human subjects among POWs and concentration camp inmates." http://lnkd.in/dPk3hzT View in LinkedIn