{"product_id":"the-united-states-and-biological-warfare-secrets-from-the-early-cold-war-and-korea","title":"The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe United States and Biological Warfare is a major contribution to our understanding of the past involvement by the US and Japanese governments with BW  with important  crucial implications for the future. . . . Pieces of this story  including the Korean War allegations  have been told before  but never so authoritatively  and with such a convincing foundation in historical research. . . . This is a brave and significant scholarly contribution on a matter of great importance to the future of humanity. Richard Falk  Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice  Princeton University  The United States and Biological Warfare argues persuasively that the United States experimented with and deployed biological weapons during the Korean War. Endicott and Hagerman explore the political and moral dimensions of this issue  asking what restraints were applied or forgotten in those years of ideological and political passion and military crisis.  For the first time  there is hard evidence that the United States lied both to Congress and the American public in saying that the American biological warfare program was purely defensive and for retaliation only. The truth is that a large and sophisticated biological weapons system was developed as an offensive weapon of opportunity in the post-World War II years. From newly declassified American  Canadian  and British documents  and with the cooperation of the Chinese Central Archives in giving the authors the first access by foreigners to relevant classified documents  Endicott and Hagerman have been able to tell the previously hidden story of the extension of the limits of modern war to include the use of medical science  the most morally laden of sciences with respect to the sanctity of human life. They show how the germ warfare program developed collaboratively by Great Britain  Canada  and the United States during the Second World War  together with information gathered from the Japanese at the end of World War II about their biological warfare technology  was incorporated into an ongoing development program in the United States. Startling evidence from both Chinese and American sources is presented to make the case.  An important book for anyone interested in the history and morality of modern warfare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985994936373,"sku":"ByrdShop_0253334721","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780253334725.jpg?v=1770880847","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-united-states-and-biological-warfare-secrets-from-the-early-cold-war-and-korea","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}