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- From: pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce)
- Subject: Biological warfare
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 16:33:09 GMT
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- /* Written 5:15 pm Dec 3, 1992 by worldpnews@igc.apc.org in igc:worldp.samples */
- /* ---------- "USA: Biological warfare" ---------- */
- >From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704
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- USA
- The following interview with Andrew Kimbrell of the Foundation for
- Economic Trends comes from R. Australia:
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- "All the areas of military research: chemical, biological,
- electronic, are now being wound down but still present enormous
- environmental health threats to the American public. These weapons
- and research projects which are geared towards destroying our
- opponents represent a threat to us.
-
- "A very good example is the continued research in biological
- warfare. Most of us probably thought in 1972, when President Nixon
- signed the Biological Warfare Convention with dozens of other
- nations, that the biological warfare threat was something of the
- past. Not so.
-
- "In the 1980's, the Reagan-Bush administration increased federal
- spending on biological warfare by 500%. In the Carter years we
- spent $15-16 million a year on biological warfare research, but in
- the 80's it grew to well over $100 million. In the 1970's, there
- was very limited research and just a few biological warfare agents
- in one or two facilities. By the 1980's, we had over 125 facilities
- working on the most dangerous pathogens known to man throughout the
- country. In places like Yale University, for instance, which are
- right in the middle of very dense populations. These facilities
- were not simply working with these dangerous diseases, with those
- pathogenic bacteria, but they were also genetically engineering
- them to enhance the danger of their toxins.
-
- "What we did here was through court action to force the
- administration to do environmental assessments on the environmental
- and health impacts of these research facilities, and we had to go
- to court three times to get the Reagan and Bush administrations to
- finally obey our laws and give the American public some feeling of
- what was actually going on in our communities.
-
- "We have also been successful in getting Congress to limit the
- kinds of experiments our government is doing on biological warfare.
- They have been spending tax payers dollars on manufacturing faster-
- acting toxins. After years of lobbying and working with Congress on
- this issue, we got regulations passed that they can only do
- research on biological agents that intelligence has shown another
- country is working on. So we can no longer work on any biological
- weapon we wish, but rather we are in a position where they have to
- show that they are working with biological warfare agents that may
- actually become a threat to the American people."
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