[1] Biological weapons (often termed "bio-weapons", "biological threat agents", or "bio-agents") are living organisms or replicating entities (i.e. viruses, which are not universally...
Fort Detrick was the center of the U.S. biological weapons program from 1943 to 1969. Since the discontinuation of that program, it has hosted most elements of the United States biological...
^ Tucker, Pat (2011), "Reunion Group Continues to Give to Fort Detrick Community", Fort Detrick Standard, 23 June 2011, pg 4. v t e United States biological weapons program Weaponized...
Army Biological Warfare Laboratories were established at Camp Detrick (now Fort Detrick) in... [7] By November 1943 the biological weapons facility at Detrick was completed, in addition...
In 1954, a prison doctor in Kentucky isolated seven black inmates and fed them “double, triple and quadruple” doses of LSD for 77 days straight. No one knows what became of the victims. They may have died without knowing they were part of the CIA’s highly secretive program to develop ways to control minds—a program based out of a little-known Army base with a dark past, Fort Detrick. Suburban sprawl has engulfed Fort Detrick, an Army base 50 miles from Washington in the Maryland town of Frederick. Seventy-six years ago, however, when th ...
would unilaterally withdraw from the biological arms race, and turned over many Fort Detrick buildings to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for cancer research. Many buildings...
During World War II, every American knew that the very existence of our nation was threatened. Twenty million Americans were serving in the military, but the front lines were far away in Europe, Africa and the Pacific. Among the threats facing our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines was the specter of biological agents. Scientists converged at Camp Detrick in 1943 to develop defenses to protect our troops from this threat. The research program at Fort Detrick pioneered the laboratory facility designs, equipment and procedures used for infecti ...
Once used as a breeding ground for biological weapons, Fort Detrick, Md., now focuses its efforts on defending against biological threats. Bruce Ivins, who died of an apparent suicide Tuesday, work...
1 Kenneth Alibek The Nonproliferation Review/Spring-Summer 1999 BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION: AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. KENNETH ALIBEK On November 6, 1998, Dr. Kenneth Alibek...
The initial identification of the relationship between the CIA and the Army Biological Laboratory at Fort Detrick as a possible questionable activity requiring further investigation...