Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas

by Leonard A. Cole

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742573895
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	02/15/1989
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	504 KB

About the Author

Leonard Cole is professor of political science at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword by Senator Alan Cranston
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Clouds of Secrecy: Introduction
Chapter 4 Infecting the Enemy: Biological Warfare in the Past, and the Road to Testing
Chapter 5 Living Near Gruinard Island
Chapter 6 Fort Detrick's Mysteries
Chapter 7 The Army's Germ Warfare Simulants: How Dangerous Are They?
Chapter 8 Airborne in the U.S.A.: Open Air Vulnerability Tests in Minneapolis, St. Louis, and the New York City Subway System
Chapter 9 Edward Nevin and the Spraying of San Francisco
Chapter 10 The Trial
Chapter 11 Terror or Error: The Yellow Rain Puzzle
Chapter 12 Engineering Genes for Defense: Recombinant DNA Technology and Biological Warfare
Chapter 13 Return to Testing: Field Experiments, the Dugway Issue, and Ethical Questions
Chapter 14 Worries and Ambiguities
Chapter 15 Appendices
Chapter 16 Index

Editorial Reviews

Cole's book addresses a serious structural problem of constitutional democracy. It is obvious from a reading . . . that the public should demand more protection and Congress should mandate it.” —Science

“Clouds of Secrecy focuses on the major issue in our state at this time. I commend it to every Utahan and to every American.” —Professor Edwin Firmage, School of Law, University of Utah

“. . . Through painstaking investigation of participants and publications, he has written not only a real horror story but, even more important, shown how conscientious individuals were led to risk the health and even the lives of fellow Americans in several cities.” —Poltics and The Life Sciences

“Cole has produced a penetrating study of the Army's clandestine 20-year biological warfare testing operation. . . . a persuasive case that Army planners knew-or should have known-they were exposing the young, the old and the medically 'compromised' to infections at 239 sites around the country.” —David Wier, New York Times Book Review

“Cole . . . effectively buttresses his arguments with evidence from primary sources and makes a solid, easily readable case for the need for public and congressional oversight.” —Choice Reviews

From the Publisher

Cole has produced a penetrating study of the Army's clandestine 20-year biological warfare testing operation.. .. a persuasive case that Army planners knew-or should have known-they were exposing the young, the old and the medically 'compromised' to infections at 239 sites around the country.

David Wier

Clouds of Secrecy focuses on the major issue in our state at this time. I commend it to every Utahan and to every American.

Professor Edwin Firmage

.. . Through painstaking investigation of participants and publications, he has written not only a real horror story but, even more important, shown how conscientious individuals were led to risk the health and even the lives of fellow Americans in several cities.

Poltics and The Life Sciences

Cole's book addresses a serious structural problem of constitutional democracy. It is obvious from a reading. .. that the public should demand more protection and Congress should mandate it.

Science

Cole. .. effectively buttresses his arguments with evidence from primary sources and makes a solid, easily readable case for the need for public and congressional oversight.

Choice Reviews

Cole's book addresses a serious structural problem of constitutional democracy. It is obvious from a reading. .. that the public should demand more protection and Congress should mandate it.

Science

Cole. .. effectively buttresses his arguments with evidence from primary sources and makes a solid, easily readable case for the need for public and congressional oversight.

Choice

Cole. .. effectively buttresses his arguments with evidence from primary sources and makes a solid, easily readable case for the need for public and congressional oversight.

CHOICE