Yes, it was tested and prepared with the assistance of fascist japan’s research in Unit 731
“The value to U.S. of Japanese BW data is of such importance to national security as to far outweigh the value accruing from war crimes prosecution”
While the jury is still out on whether they were truly used in the field, the biological warfare program was shut down because it wasn’t cost effective compared to nukes and missiles, not because it was morally and ethically abhorrent.
“On 5 March 1954, Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson canceled the 21 December 1951 directive. The results of the BW “crash program” had been disappointing. According to Dorothy L. Miller’s USAF history of the period, “The new directive affirmed the necessity for a biological warfare program, but it reduced the pressure to build up an immediate capability. Instead, the emphasis was to be upon long range research and development, with an adequate field testing program. The military services realized that they had reached the point of diminishing returns on the development of existing end items (p. 79)””
Yes, it was tested and prepared with the assistance of fascist japan’s research in Unit 731
“The value to U.S. of Japanese BW data is of such importance to national security as to far outweigh the value accruing from war crimes prosecution”
While the jury is still out on whether they were truly used in the field, the biological warfare program was shut down because it wasn’t cost effective compared to nukes and missiles, not because it was morally and ethically abhorrent.
“On 5 March 1954, Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson canceled the 21 December 1951 directive. The results of the BW “crash program” had been disappointing. According to Dorothy L. Miller’s USAF history of the period, “The new directive affirmed the necessity for a biological warfare program, but it reduced the pressure to build up an immediate capability. Instead, the emphasis was to be upon long range research and development, with an adequate field testing program. The military services realized that they had reached the point of diminishing returns on the development of existing end items (p. 79)””