The American germ warfare program targeted various diseases including anthrax.
Evidence
The committee recommended intensified work on Q fever, rabbit fever, and plague, in addition to a number of animal and plant diseases, including hog cholera, wart hog disease, anthrax, and “virulent races of wheat, oat, barley and rye rusts.” — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 139
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 139
- XREF: connects to: Zinc cadmium was used to simulate anthrax in dispersal tests. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 268; Post-WWII American officials downplayed Japanese war crimes in germ warfare. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 633; Suppressed knowledge allows the myth of American decency to endure. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 1087
Related
- Post-WWII American officials downplayed Japanese war crimes in germ warfare. (similarity 0.83)
- The U.S. recommended intensified biological warfare research in 1951. (similarity 0.82)
- Zinc cadmium was used to simulate anthrax in dispersal tests. (similarity 0.79)