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1959 Hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations.pdf
Statements given by Army officials regarding status of CEBAR. Objective to raise allocated budget for CEBAR. Much of the useful info is off the record.

1958 Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations.pdf
Relevant info largely pertains to statements made by Gen. Creasy on the status of CEBAR. Much of useful info is off the record, but two of Creasy's prior speeches are included.

1959 Hearing Before Committee on Science and Astronautics.pdf
Statements given by Army officials regarding status of CEBAR. Less information on biological warfare, more focus on chemical.

1970 Health Aspects of Chemical and Biological Weapons.pdf
Report generated by the Director-General of the WHO in cooperation with the UN, aims to be more technical than was the UN report.

2013 H5N1 A Case Study for Dual-Use Research.pdf
The author uses the threat of a global pandemic caused by H5N1 to advocate for dual use research and make recommendations to improve it.

This paper seeks to define criteria for a Global Catastrophic Biological Risk, or GCBR, which was previously defined as an event with the potential to produce tens to hundreds of millions of fatalities, alter the long term trajectory of humanity, or…

This report makes recommendations to the Department of Defense about how to accelerate research and development towards countermeasures against bioterrorism, under the assumption that it poses a threat.

1944 French Intelligence on Typhus.pdf
This summarizes updates acquired by France about German progress in BW and potential plans.

1960 Fourth Meeting of the Biological and Chemical Defense Planning Board.pdf
Provides an overview of the fourth B&C committee meeting

2002 Foot and Mouth Disease_ To Protect U.S. Livestock, USDA Must Remain Vigilant and Resolve Outstanding Issues.pdf
This report discusses the dangers to livestock of foot and mouth disease and whether or not we can prevent it in the US following an outbreak in the UK.

1944 First meeting of the United States Biological Warfare Committee.pdf
This meeting discussed liaisons with Canada and the British and also gave an overview of the development of the biological warfare program of the US.

1960 First Meeting of the Biological and Chemical Defense Planning Board.pdf
This first meeting of the B&C Defense Planning Board had the objective of providing analysis of present capabilities, encouragement and planning for research, and improvement in the coupling of DoD and civilian activities.

1947 Experimental Air-Borne Infection.pdf
Details methods and results from a cloud chamber project at Camp Detrick, MD. Authors study the properties of two non-pathogenic bacteria, four pathogenic bacteria, and three pathogenic viruses. Stability to atomization was measured in the cloud…

1983 Excerpts from the USA Army Documents to Support de Jong_s Claims.pdf
A collection of documents obtained from Peter Von Stackelberg, via Simon de Jong of the House of Commons of Ottawa, Canada. Includes a variety of press releases and articles for print, but also excerpts from US Army BW program documents.

1947 Excerpts from 1947 Report on Biological Warfare.pdf
This report takes a look at Type F cluster bombs, one of which contains anthrax, and evaluates how these weapons can be improved to reduce the tons of weapons used and still maximize the effects (risk of death).

1961 Evaluation of Special Operations at Fort Detrick.pdf
Ad Hoc Group was organized to evaluate and prep recommendations on the covert program and activities of the Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick

2005 Engineering Bio-Terror Agents_ Lessons from the Offensive US and Russian Biological Weapons Programs.pdf
This is a hearing before the Subcommittee on Prevention of Nuclear and Biological Attack to address the biological threat and to assess the role of the DHS in preventing bioterrorism in the US.

2024 Emerging Technology and Risk Analysis Synthetic Pandemics.pdf
Assessed whether engineering pathogens capable of "sustained, human-to-human transmission and causing mortality and morbidity" is possible/probable. Also considers how such pathogens would compare to naturally emergent pathogens in these regards, the…
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