Biowarfare and Terrorism

by Boyle, Francis A.

• ISBN13: 9780932863461
• ISBN10: 0932863469
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-26
• Publisher: Clarity Pr

Summary

How and why the US initiated, sustained and then dramatically expanded an illegal biological arms buildup. Linking U.S. biowarfare development to the October 2001 anthrax attack on Congress--the most significant political attack on US democracy in recent history--Boyle sheds new light on * the motives for the attack * the media black hole of silence * why the FBI may never apprehend the perpetrators of this seminal crime of the 21st century The American people have deep cause for public concern about the US Chemical and Biological Defense Program.

Table of Contents

Foreword	11	(4)
Jonathan King
Call for a Ban on the Genetic Alteration of Pathogens for Destructive Purposes	15	(2)
Introduction	17	(2)
The Biological Weapons Convention	19	(4)
Origins of the BWC Convention	19	(1)
The BWC Loophole	20	(1)
The Reaganite Neo-Cons	21	(2)
Making Biological Weapons	23	(2)
Stages of the Biological Weapons-Making Process	23	(2)
U.S. Government Biowarfare Contracts	25	(4)
Biowarfare Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Campus	26	(1)
American Universities Line Up at the BDRP Trough	26	(1)
Shaky Scientific Ethics a Biowarfare Problem?	27	(1)
The Need for Appropriate Biowarfare Contract Review	28	(1)
The Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989	29	(10)
The Biotechnology Industry Changes Course	30	(1)
Governmental Resistance to Regulating Biowarfare Research	31	(1)
The Neo-Cons under Reagan Violate the Biological Weapons Convention	32	(1)
The Bush Sr. Administration Acts Responsibly on Biowarfare	33	(1)
Primary Features of the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act	34	(3)
Closing the Door on Biowarfare Research Loopholes	37	(2)
U.S. Biowarfare-Related Violations of International Law	39	(5)
Iraq: The Nuremberg Code on Medical Experimentation	39	(2)
The Clinton Administration Violates the Biological Weapons Convention	41	(1)
The George W. Bush Administration Repudiates the Verification Protocol of the BWC	42	(2)
Domestic Terrorism: The Anthrax Attacks on The U.S. Congress	44	(9)
The FBI Cover-Up: Motivating Factors	46	(2)
Resounding Silence	48	(1)
Linkage Between the Anthrax Attacks and 9/11?	49	(4)
Gearing Up to Fight and ``Win'' Biowarfare	53	(22)
WMD Partnering: Nuclear and Bioweaponry	54	(1)
PNAC Bombshell a Harbinger?	55	(1)
The Bush Jr. Administration's Plans for Bio-WMD Wars of Aggression	56	(2)
Bush Undersecretary of State for Arms Control---Gung Ho for Bios	58	(1)
To Fight and ``Win'' by Biowarfare: The Prerequisites	58	(1)
The Smoking Gun: The Pentagon's Chemical and Biological Defense Program	59	(5)
The Offensive Nature of ``Civilian Defense''	64	(2)
More Criminal Exposure for the CBDP	66	(6)
Can World War III Be Far Behind?	72	(1)
Bush Jr.'s Banana Republic	72	(3)
Reining in Biowarfare Research: How It Can Be Done Why We Must Do It	75	(33)
No Escape for U.S. in Misinterpreting BWC Obligations	75	(3)
Activating the Biological Weapons Convention's Complaint Procedure	78	(3)
Filing a BWC Complaint for Investigation by the U.N. Secretary-General	81	(1)
Hoisting the Bush Jr. Administration With Its Own Petard	82	(3)
Further Recourse Through the U.N. General Assembly	85	(1)
A Warning to Scientists	86	(1)
Campaign for the Peaceful Development of the Biological Sciences	87	(4)
A Letter of Demand to the Department of Defense on the CBDP Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement	91	(17)
Francis A. Boyle
Terry J. Lodge
Conclusion	108	(4)
Appendix I Critique of the Pentagon's Biological Defense Research Program (1988)	112	(10)
Appendix II Biowarfare Research at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine	122	(2)
Appendix III Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare	124	(2)
Appendix IV Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction	126	(7)
Endnotes	133	(7)
Index	140