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signs and ratifies Geneva Protocol 45, 46

Jäger, August 4

Japan

Aum Shinrikiyo cult 250–251

BW used in China 80–81

BW weapons developed 77

BW work begun 75–76

CW used in China 48, 118–119

CW weapons range 47–48

CW work begun 43, 47

CW WW2 extent 119–120

experiments on POWs 79–80, 143, 156

Geneva Protocol not ratified 46

Geneva Protocol signed 45

Khabarovsk war crimes trial 79, 142–143

mentioned 87, 118, 133

OSS clandestine attacks on during WW2 206

Pingfan Institute founded 76–78

Roosevelt warns 119, 124

terrorists xi, 250–251

US fears of 118–119

US plans attack on rice crop of 100

US plans to use CW against 137

US shields BW criminals 79, 142–143, 156

John Harvey 120–121

Joint Chiefs of Staff, US 163, 172, 182

Joint Planning Staff 127–128, 131–135

Joint Technical Warfare Committee 98–99, 145, 152

Jones, Professor R V 84

K G B 201–202, 215, 223

Kaffa 74

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute 10, 11, 43

Kampuchea (Cambodia) 168, 195, 236, 237

Karaganda poison gas factory 50

Kargin, Professor Colonel 141

Kelly, Dr John 49–50

Kempai 75

Kennedy, John F 172

Kennes, General 63

Khabarovsk war crimes trial 79, 142–143

Khokhlov, Nicholai 201–202

Khruschev, Nikita 149

King’s Liverpool Regiment 26

Kinghwa 80

Kitchener, Lord 5

Kleinhans, Dr Wilhem 56–57, 140

Knowles, Captain Elvin 120–122

Korean War 165–166, 197, 208

Kostov, Vladimir 200–201

Krappitz nerve gas arsenal 56, 62

Kraz, Dr 55

Kroesen, Frederick 230–231

Kubis, Jan 91, 94

Kuhn, Dr Richard 141

Kuibyshev gas factory 50

Kwangtung 75

Kyasanar Forest Disease 171

L pills 214

lachrymators 59

Lance missile 235

Lane, W R 69

Langat virus 171

Langemarck 1

Laos 195, 236, 237

Lashbrok, Robert 210

Lassa fever 222

Le 100: 65

League of Nations 44, 49

Leahy, Admiral Timothy 118

Leeds 72

Lefebure, Victor 33–34

Leningrad Institute of Ultra-Pure Biopreparations 245, 246

leprosy 144

Lethbridge Report 137

Lewisite 33, 47, 51, 118, 151

Ley, Robert 63

Libya

BW programme 249

CBW availability xi

Chemical Weapons Convention not signed 250

CW used against Chad 250

mentioned 203

smallpox 249

lice 90

Lidice 90, 94

Lin Piao, General 165

Linde, van der 54

List 51

Lister Institute 69, 74, 86

Livens Projector 22–23, 42, 47, 113

Livens, Captain F H 22–23

Lloyd George, David 38

LN agents 99

Loos, Battle of 11–15

Lost 28

Lovell, Stanley P 204–207

LSD 190–191, 209–213

Luftwaffe 59

Lumumba, Patrice 217–218

Luranil 55

M device 33, 43

Maddison, Ronald 181

Maher Abdul Rashid, Major General 241

malaria 170

Malaya 101, 194, 195

Manhattan Project 101

Marburg fever 222, 248

Markov, Georgi 200–201

Marshal, George C 125

Martin, Trevor 184

Masuda, Colonel Tomosada 76–78

Masuka Dan 48

Matsumoto 251

McDonald, Larry 230–231

Medical Research Council 81, 82, 86

Mekong delta 194

Melchamie 240–241

meliodosis 98

Mellanby, Edward 82

Memphis 169

Merck, George W 96, 154

Mexico 216

MI 3: 50

MI 6: 94, 149, 227

MI 19: 66, 67

Microbiological Warfare Committee 82

Middlesex Hospital, London 69

Middlesex, 1st Regiment 14–15

Mindszenty, Cardinal Josef 207–208

Minneapolis 160

Mitkiewicz, Colonel 89

MKDELTA 213

MKSEARCH 213

MKULTRA 209–213

Mongolia 144–145

Montana 55

Montgomery, General B L 64

Monturon 55

Moravec, General Frantisek 90, 94

Morocco 44, 205

Morrison, Herbert 126

mosquitoes 97, 165, 168–169

Moss, Robert 223

Mrugowsky, Oberführer 61

Munich crisis 50, 108

Munster 51, 58

Mussolini, Benito 62

mustard gas

Abyssinia, use in 49

Afghanistan, use in 43–44

Bari disaster 120–124

British civil defence precautions against 108–109

British use of 32

British WW2 production 114–115

casualty producing power of 26–27

clandestine operations 204

disposal of stocks after WW2 139, 186

effects of 25–26, 35–36

first use of 24–26

German cities, use against 127–130

German invasion, use against 112

German WW2 weapons 58, 59

high altitude spraying of 52

human experimentation using 39, 42–43

likely effects if used against cities 132–133

mentioned 24, 47, 52, 58, 80, 106, 118

production difficulties 28–29

Saddam Hussein 240

Soviet arsenal 142, 150–151, 233

US stockpile of 199

mycotoxins 237

N-Stoff 58

Nancekuke 182–184, 187

Narshino gas warfare school 48, 119

National Academy of Science 97

National Cancer Institute 225

NATO 148, 222, 228–229, 231, 233–234

Natzweiler concentration camp 60, 85

Needham, Dr Joseph 165, 166

nerve gases

battlefield use 241

binary weapons 234–235

Britain, US and Canada work on 176–178, 179–184

characteristics 54

dangers involved in manufacture 56–57

German arsenal 62

German attempts to destroy factory 140

German manufacture 55–56

Hitler considers using 62–64

insecticides for people xii

invention 53–54

kept secret from the Allies 65–67

Russia begins manufacture of 150

Soviet agents 228–229, 232–233

stocks fall into Allied hands 140–141

V-weapons 59–60

see also sarin, soman, tabun, VX

New York 159, 162

New York State Psychiatric Institute 192

New York Times 32, 198, 222–223

New Zealand 178

Newall, Sir Cyril 83

Newport VX factory 188

Nimitz, Admiral Chester 137

Ningpo 80

nitric acid 59

Nixon, Richard M 174–176, 214, 218, 219, 222–223, 231, 232, 234, 239

NKVD 89

noddy suit 230–231

Norooz, Sourab 240

North Korea

CBW availability xi

Chemical Weapons Convention not signed 250

smallpox 249

Northern Ireland 197

Novosibirsk 223

Now! 223

Nuremberg war crimes trial 86, 100

Obanakoro, Nigeria 180

Ochsner, General Hermann 59

Ohio State University 166

Okinawa 199. 220

Okolovich, Sergeivich 201–202

Olsen, Frank 210–211

Operation Anthropoid 90–94

Operation Cauldron 161

Operation Harness 158

Operation Hesperus 161

Operation Negation 158

Operation Overlord see D-Day Operation Ozone 158

Operation Pandora 158

Operation Ranch Hand 193–196

organo-phosphorus compounds 53

Osama bin Laden 251

OSS 204–207

Owen, Wilfred 20–21

P helmets 17

Pacific War Council 81

Pakistan 249

Panama Canal Zone 185

Pappenheimer, Professor Alvin 95

Pasechnik, Vladimir 245, 246

Pearl Harbor 87

Peck, Air Vice-Marshal 86

Penclawdd, Gower 74

Penkovsky, Oleg 148–150

Pennsylvania University 198–199

Peshawar 44, 145

PF-3: 67

Phnom Penh 168

phosgene (CG) 11, 17–20, 23, 28–29, 33, 36, 50–52, 59, 115, 116, 132–133, 142, 186, 199

Phytophtera infestans (Mort) de Bary 100

Picker, Professor 61

pigeon bombs 163

Pikalov, V K 228

Pine Bluff Arsenal 117–118, 163, 166, 175, 193, 221