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The United States and Biological Warfare argues persuasively that the United States experimented with and deployed biological weapons during the Korean War. Endicott and Hagerman explore the political and moral dimensions of this issue, asking what restraints were applied or forgotten in those years of ideological and political passion and military crisis.
For the first time, there is hard evidence that the United States lied both to Congress and to the American public in saying that the American biological warfare program was purely defensive and for retaliation only. The truth is that a large and sophisticated biological weapons system was developed as an offensive weapon of opportunity in the post-World War II years.
From newly declassified U.S., Canadian, and British documents, and with the cooperation of the Chinese Central Archives in giving the authors the first access by foreigners to relevant classified documents, Endicott and Hagerman have been able to tell the previously hidden story of the extension of the limits of modern war to include the use of medical science, the most morally laden of sciences with respect to the sanctity of human life.
An important book for anyone interested in the history and morality of modern warfare.
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Biological warfare, Korean War, 1950-1953, American history: postwar, from c 1945 -, Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -, Chemical & biological weapons, International relations, Military History - Korea Conflict, Military, Chemical And Biological Warfare, United States - 20th Century, History, History - Military / War, Military - United States, China, Japan, Korea, USA, Military - Biological & Chemical Warfare, Military - Intelligence/Espionage, United States, Military - Korean War, New York Times reviewedPlaces
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The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-266) and index.
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