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This report is in response to specific questions from the Joint Committee on New Weapons and Equipment.

This interim report by the Biological Warfare Subcommittee discusses German biological warfare capabilities in relation to US capabilities.

This report summarized the available information on Botulinus Toxin using a study of files available in the New Developments Division, Chemical Warfare Service, and the Surgeon General's Office as sources.

Memo of Japanese origin that discusses the alleged use of biological and chemical weapons by the Germans and Chinese to make the point that the risk is present and even increasing in peacetime. It then discusses the different threats posed by…

This memo from the Acting Director of the Office of Strategic Services to the Joint Staff Planners discusses the potential threat of the Germans using the toxin of bacillus botulinus as a secret weapon.

Henry L. Stimson requested that the National Academy of Sciences establish a committee [formed as the War Bureau of Consultants (WBC) Committee] to assess all aspects of the potential for threat of biological weapons. The committee evaluated the…

The author assesses the feasibility of biological warfare against modern public health.

Assesses the possibility of biological warfare and the means by which it could be waged.