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anti-personnel mines 104

Apen, von 144–145

Arbusov, Alexander 141

Archangel 43

Armentieres 31

“Armour for the Inner Man” 192

Army Medical Research Institute 225

Arras, Battle of 22–23

arsenic 89

Asian ’flu 171

Aspergillus fumigatus 159–160

Atelier de Pyrotechnie du Bouchet 43

Atlee, Clement 114

atomic bomb 65, 97, 100, 115, 125

atropine 57

Aultbea 68, 72

Aum Shinrikiyo cult 250–251

Australia 47, 178, 180, 230

Avonmouth mustard gas factory 28

Bacillus globigii 159

Bacon, Geoffrey 172

Bacteriological Warfare Committee 72, 84–85, 102

Bagwhan Shree Rajneesh 250

Bahamas 158, 161

Baker, James 242–243

Baldwin, Stanley 50

Balkans 133

Bandera, Stefan 202

Barcroft’s dog 38

Barcroft, Joseph 5, 37–38

Bari Harbour disaster 120–124

Barley, Colonel n 6–117

“Beam” operations 29–30

Beaverbrook, Lord 114

Beckstrom, Howard D 120–122

Ben Lomond 160–161

Berlin 105, 106, 126

Bertram, Captain 3

Bild Zeitung 224

binary weapons 234–235, 239

Biological Weapons Convention 1972: xiii, 174, 175, 220–226, 231, 245, 252

Biopreparat 245

Bistera 122

“Black Book” 65

Black Death 246, 252

“Black Magic” 197

Blauer, Harold 191–192

Blome, Professor 85

Boeki Kyusuibu 78

Bomber Command 112–113, 132

Bormann, Martin 63

botulinus toxin (BTX) 84, 88–89, 93, 94, 158, 217, 242

botulism 76

Boulogne 4–5

Bourget 52

Boycott, Professor A E 41

Bradley, General Omar 64

Brandt, Karl 63

Brandyuzhsky gas factory 50

Brave New World 68

Brezhnev, Leonid 231

British Broadcasting Corporation 108, 200

British Expeditionary Force 109

British Medical Journal 171

Brown, Ernest 102. 104

Brown, Sir William 114

brucellosis 76, 98, 106, 158, 164, 166, 175

BTX see botulinus toxin

Buchenwald 85

Bulgaria 200–201

Bush, President George W xi

Butler, Richard 241, 244

BZ 192–193

Callaghan, James 238

Cambodia see Kampuchea

Cambrai salient 31

Camp Detrick 89, 97–98, 154–155, 157, 163, 165, 166, see also Fort Detrick

Camp Sibert 120

Canada

BTX antidote 85

BW Convention 174, 221

Geneva Protocol 45

LSD 190

mentioned 61, 164, 167, 216, 230

Tripartite Agreement 177–178, 180, 186–187

troops suffer early gas attack 3–4

wartime co-operation with Britain 94–95

cancer 35–36, 171

cannabis 211

Castro, Fidel 217

casualties 1980s xi, 241

Iran-Iraq War xi, 241

World War 1: 32

cat bombs 206

cattle cakes (anthrax impregnated) 87–88

Cayley, Fred 36

Celibes 78

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 149, 204, 205, 207–218, 227

Chad 250

Chamberlain, Neville 83, 89, 108

Changteh 80

Chemical Corps, US

disposal of toxic waste 220

expansion urged in Kennedy era 172

increase in strength in 1970s 231

intelligence estimates unreliable 148

Korean War BW 165–166

mosquitoes for BW 168–171

plans for BW 164–165, 167–169

public relations campaign 188–189

sarin production 185

Soviet strength estimate 232–233

tests germs on US public 157–158, 160–162

Tripartite Agreement 177

VX production 187–188

‘war without death’ 189–192

see also Chemical Warfare Service

Chemical Warfare Convention 1997: xiii, 249–250

Chemical Warfare Service, US

Bari 120–121

expanded 34

Geneva Protocol opposition 46

mentioned 28, 96, 124

presses for increased wartime spending on CW 117–118

recruitment campaign 1920 34

for post-WW2 activities see Chemical Corps

Cherwell, Lord 101–103, 125–126

Chiefs of Staff, British 81, 83, 88, 102, 114–116, 125–130, 135, 140, 152, 154, 204

Chiefs of Staff, Combined 123–124

China 48–49, 79–81, 118–119, 142.–143, 155, 165–166, 168, 191

Chisholm, General Brock 84

chloracne 196

chloramine 246

chlorine 1–3, 6, 10, 11, 14, 17, 118

chlorine triflouride 58, 59

cholera 75–78, 80, 144, 156, 158, 170

cholinesterase 54

Cholmondely Castle 90

Chuhsien 80

Church, Frank 214

Churchill, Winston S

anthrax programme information 101–103

anticrop warfare 99

authorises purchase of 500,000 bombs 102

Bari disaster 123

Bari disaster report 132, 135

cattle cakes manufacture 87–88

CBW developments predicted 70

CW demonstration in WW1 21

CW inititiation ‘cold blooded calculation’ requested 127–128

CW stocks inadequacy 113–115

gas production wound up 136

German invasion and use of gas 112

mentioned 81, 97

phosgene and US supplies 116–117

radioactive gas threat 125–126

Stalin offered CW supplies 137

V-weapon attacks 126–127

Clamency phosgene factory 50

Clarendon Laboratory 115

cloud chamber project 98

Club MAD 250

CN riot gas 197

cobra venom 214

Cockayne, William 179–180

Colby, William 214–215

Collinge, Lieutenant 26

Colorado Beetle 87, 98, 100

Creasy, William M 167

CS riot gas 197–198

Cuba 223

cyanide 214

cyanogen chloride 59

Cyprus 145, 197

Czech Republic 251

Czechoslovakia 89–94, 201, 226

D-Day 64, 124–126, 137

DA 33, 42

Dachau 85

Daily Mail 6

Daily Telegraph 223

Dalby, Captain 69

Danzig, Hitler’s speech at 54–55, 83, 84

Daschle, Tom 251

DDT 65, 67

Defence Standards Laboratories, Australia 217

Defence, Ministry of 86, 160, 185–186, 225

Defense Science Board 188–189

Defense, Department of 167, 174, 195

defoliation 99

dengue 170

DF 235

dichlor 185

dichlorethyl sulphide 28

Dick, Professor 92–93

Dill, Sir John 110–112, 113

dioxin 195–196

dirty weapons xi

disarmament enforcement 254

DM 42, 51

Donovan, William 204–205

Dugway Proving Ground 118, 173–174, 185, 193, 219

Duisberg, Carl 9–10, 11, 32

Dulles, Allen 209

Dunkirk 110, 138

Dyhernfurth nerve gas factory 55–58, 140

dysentery 75, 77–80, 144, 158, 170

East Germany 226–227

Ebola fever 222, 247, 248

Edgewood Arsenal 33, 50, 64, 95, 97, 176, 177, 185, 187, 191–192, 234–235

Egypt 229

Eisenhower, Dwight D 123–125, 135

Elberfeld 54

encephalitis 98, 171

encephalomyelitis 164

entomological warfare 98

Erickson, John 228–229

ethnic weapon 173, 253

Evans, Dr Martin 217

Exeter University 201

Fafek, Rela 91

Falkenhagen sarin factory 58, 140

Falkenhayn, General Erich von 2–3

feather bombs 163, 165

Federal Bureau of Investigation 222–223

Ferry, General 4

fertility blocks 248

Fildes, Dr Paul 69, 72–73, 82–84, 86, 88–91, 105–106, 152

fleas 78, 98, 144–145, 165, 170

‘Flying Cow’ 115

‘Flying Lavatory’ 115

Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation 188

foot and mouth disease 82, 84

Ford, Gerald 167

Formosa 47

Fort Detrick 166, 167, 169–171, 173–174, 194, 209–210, 215–217 see also Camp Detrick

Foulkes, General C H 7–8, 11, 12, 15, 19, 21, 22, 30, 33–34, 39–40, 43–44, 74, 238

fowl pest 98