Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas - Hardcover

Cole, Leonard A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847675793 ISBN 13: 9780847675791

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1989

Synopsis

Assesses the risks of the Army's biological warfare program, discusses uses of germ warfare in Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, and examines the ethics of such weapons.

About this title

About the Author:

Leonard Cole is professor of political science at Rutgers University.

Review:

Cole's book addresses a serious structural problem of constitutional democracy. It is obvious from a reading . . . that the public should demand more protection and Congress should mandate it. (Science)

Clouds of Secrecy focuses on the major issue in our state at this time. I commend it to every Utahan and to every American. (Professor Edwin Firmage, School of Law, University of Utah)

. . . Through painstaking investigation of participants and publications, he has written not only a real horror story but, even more important, shown how conscientious individuals were led to risk the health and even the lives of fellow Americans in several cities. (Poltics and The Life Sciences)

Cole has produced a penetrating study of the Army's clandestine 20-year biological warfare testing operation. . . . a persuasive case that Army planners knew-or should have known-they were exposing the young, the old and the medically 'compromised' to infections at 239 sites around the country. (David Wier, New York Times Book Review)

Cole . . . effectively buttresses his arguments with evidence from primary sources and makes a solid, easily readable case for the need for public and congressional oversight. (CHOICE)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0847675793
• ISBN 13: 9780847675791
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200