| Description |
1 online resource (201 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Science, Secrecy, and the Smithsonian -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Secrecy Comes to the Smithsonian -- 2. Recruitment -- 3. Prequels -- 4. Life in the Field -- 5. The Artificial Atoll -- 6. Project 112 -- 7. "Bird Bombs" -- 8. The Military Payoff -- 9. The "Secret" Emerges -- 10. Fate of the Islands -- 11. Aftermath and Aftereffects -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: The original contract creating the POBSP -- Appendix II: Entomological Warfare -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Science, Secrecy, and the Smithsonian: The Strange History of the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program tells the story of how in the 1960s the Smithsonian Institution, with its otherwise spotless reputation, got involved in the sordid business of biological warfare. Over a seven-year period, Smithsonian scientists undertook a large-scale biological survey of a group of uninhabited tropical islands in the Pacific but there was a twist. The study had been initiated, funded, and was overseen by the U.S. Biological Laboratories at Fort Detrick, Maryland--home of the American biological warfare |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Project 112 (U.S.) -- History
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Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program. fast (OCoLC)fst01050010 |
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Biological weapons -- United States -- Testing -- History -- 20th century
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Birds -- War use -- History -- 20th century
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Offenses against the environment -- Government policy -- United States
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Biological weapons -- Testing.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0197520340 |
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9780197520345 |
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