America's Bioweapons Program
On November 18, 1941 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., United States Secretary of War Henry Stimson convened a committee to investigate the threat of biological warfare. Over the next year, this committee catalogued a myriad selection of possible biological and germ warfare agents.
In June 1942 they issued their recommendation to the War Bureau of Consultants, "In biological warfare, the best defense is offense and the threat of offense." While American forces were entrenched in the Pacific and European theaters, scientists began developing and testing biological weapons on the homefront -- classified programs that would continue after the end of WWII and into the Cold War.
Find some of the declassified United States biological weapons program sites on this map.
page created on 12.15.2006