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

by Leonard A. Cole

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847675791
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	02/15/1989
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.87(d)

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

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 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

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

This disturbing study, based on government records, courtroom testimony and interviews, focuses on biological-warfare testing and the U.S. Army's expanding program to develop cheaper and more effective biological weapons. Cole traces the growth of the biological arsenal during World War II, reviews the scientific literature (which questions the Army's contention that bacteria used in tests are harmless) and assesses the spraying of several American locales, including San Francisco and the New York subway system. Cole charges that the Army failed to monitor the health of the targeted population, and quotes from a 1981 trial in a case brought by a San Francisco family, one of whose members is believed to have died as a result of the 1950 test in that city. Reflecting on ``the human capacity to confuse good intentions with harmful actions,'' the author, who teaches at Rutgers University, concludes with a discussion of the ethics of spraying unsuspecting citizens with bacteria and the need for protection against such experiments. (September)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

An in-depth analysis of the U.S. Army's biological warfare (BW) research/testing from World War II to the present. Cole (Rutgers Univ.) details unpublicized activities at the Army's BW headquarters, the secret ``test'' spraying of bacteria over major American cities, and a court case on one such test. He also examines the charges of Soviet ``yellow rain'' and genetic engineering. His research is solidon-site visits, interviews, congressional hearings, court testimony, government documents, and scientific and scholarly literature. While this careful work is not a polemic, it raises a specter of government secrecy and deception with chilling implications. One of the best efforts on a topic long concealed from the American public. Clifton E. Wilson, Political Science Dept., Univ. of Arizona, Tucson

Library Journal

. . . 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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