Anmerkungen:
Also issued in print: 2022. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 19, 2022)
Beschreibung:
'Science, Secrecy, and the Smithsonian' 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 program. In signing the contract to perform the survey, the Smithsonian became a literal subcontractor to a secret biological warfare project.