Report on Special BW Operations

Report on Special BW Operations

The Committee's goal was to evaluate if biological agents could be used in sabotage, and if the U.S. was vulnerable to such attacks.

1948

Biological agents could serve as effective means of sabotage. Such attacks could lead to significant loss of life (man, animal, plant), leading to disruptions in food supply and ability to defend the nation. Recommended developing detection systems, therapeutics, and decontamination techniques, as well as studying dissemination. This last recommendation was of particular importance, as it guided a variety of field tests of dispersion methods over the next two decades.