Robert Harris - A Higher form of Killing

Pingfan Institute 76–79

Piricularia oryzae 100

plague 74, 76–80, 82, 86, 98, 144, 145, 156, 164, 170

pneumonic plague 172

Poland 44–45, 89

Portal, Sir Charles 129

Porton 37

Porton Down, CW and BW establishment

accidents, death of Ronald Maddison 181

accidents, gassing of Williamn Cockayne 179–180

anthrax-filled cattle cakes 87–88

biological warfare department 83

BW work post-war 155, 160–161, 167, 171, 225

clandestine weapons supplied to SOE 204

CS developed 197

CW weapons in WW2 115

CW work post-war 180

defence expertise 230

founded 1916: 21, 37

gas casualties WW1 35–36

German CW investigated after WW2 57–61

Gruinard continuing contamination 73–74

Gruinard tests 69–72, 97

Heydrich asssasination 88–90, 94

Markov case 201

mentioned 64, 176

Microbiological Research Establishment founded 154

Nancekuke out station 182–184

nerve gas development failure 66–67

offensive work continued despite Geneva Protocol 47

opens new ‘Battle Run’ 231

peacetime basis 41–42

present-day size 37

service volunteers in experiments 177

Suffield testing range 94–95

suicide of Director 181

VX developed 187–188

work between the wars 42–43, 52

work in WW1 37–41

Posen Military Medical Academy 85

Possev 223

Post Box V–8724

facility 245

Powers, Gary 214–215

Pravda 142

Project Bluebird 208

Project Coast 248–249

Project Often 213

Project Tomka 47

prussic acid 202

psittacosis 98, 164, 205

Public Health Laboratory 82, 84

Pym, Francis 238

Q Fever 164, 173, 175, 221

radioactive gas 125–126

Ramsay, Captain 25, 27

Randle poison gas factory 115

Raubkammer training area 58–60, 62

Reagan, Ronald 234, 236, 238, 239

Red Cross 49

Reutershan, Paul 196

Rhydymwyn gas factory 115

Ribbentrop, Joachim von 137

ricin 201, 242

ricketts 98

Rift Valley Fever 164, 248

rinderpest 96, 98

Robertson, General 7

Rocksavage poison gas factory 115

Rocky Mountain Arsenal 118, 185, 199, 220

Rocky Mountain spotted fever 164

rogue states 252

Roosevelt, Franklin D 96, 118, 119, 137, 166

Roskill, Stephen 82

Rothschild, General J H 168, 173

Royal Air Force 44, 88, 90, 112–113, 161

Royal Army Medical Corps 17, 25, 41

Royal Engineers 7, 25 see also Special Brigade

Royal Navy 158, 160

Russian casualties in WW1 10–11, 32

Ruwet, Colonel Vincent 210

Rüdriger, Colonel 54

Saddam Hussein

mustard gas 240

nerve gas used on battlefield 241

Sahara 52

Saigon Children’s Hospital 196

Salisbury 160

Salisbury Plain 21, 37, 41

Salman Pak factory 240, 242

salmonella 76, 80, 250

Salt, Major 44

Samarra factory 240

San Francisco 159, 212

San Francisco Herald Examiner 146, 211

Sandoz Drug Company 190

sarin (GB) 54, 56, 58, 59, 61, 64, 65, 140, 179–185, 241, 251

Savannah, Georgia 169

Schnitzler, Baron Georg von 62

Schrader, Dr Gerhard 53–54, 56, 57, 65, 100

Schwirkmann, Horst 202–203

sclerotium rolfsii 100

Scotland Yard 200, 201

SD 90

Selassie, Emperor Haile 49

Sergeant missile 169, 174

serratia marcescens 159

Servizio Chemico Mililtare 43

Seventh Day Adventists 170

Seveso 196

sex hormones 207

Shaw, George Bernard 21

shellfish toxin 214–217

Siberian Regiment 11

Singapore 120

SK 9

smallpox 76, 79, 156, 247, 249

Snajdr, Vladimir 92–93

soman (GD) 140–141, 150, 179

Somer-Lost 58

Somme, Battle of 19–20

South Africa 248–249

Southampton 160

Soviet Union

arsenal extent 150–151

British fears of 51, 84, 138

BW allegedly used against Japan 75

BW Convention 221–222, 231

BW development alleged 21–225

BW use by NKVD 89

BW work 143–146

CBW position stated 146–147

CBW programme and arsenal xi, 248

claims not to possess biological weapons 221–222

clandestine use of CBW agents 201–202, 208

CW allegedly supplied to Egypt 229

CW allegedly supplied to Vietnam 236

CW allegedly used in Afghanistan 237

CW convention proposed 231–232

CW stocks post-war 232–233

CW work,post WW1 43, 50

Geneva Protocol 45, 46

German attack feared 137, 147

German nerve gas agents captured 140

Germany, collaboration with 47

Japanese BW experts sought for interrogation 155–156

Khabarovsk war crimes trial 142–143

mentioned 49, 59, 109

missile technology and CBW 248

NATO presumes will use CW 233–234

Penkovsky allegations 148–150

post-war Allied fears of 141–142, 146–147, 153, 228–229, 232

Red Army training 147

smallpox supplies for rogue countries 249

Sverdlovsk 223–225, 246

T2: 237

Spain 44

Spandau CW laboratories 54, 58, 66

Special Air Service 217

Special Brigade 11–13, 19, 20, 29

Special Commission on Disarmament (UNSCOM) 241

Special Operations Executive (SOE) 89, 90, 204–205

Speer, Albert 63, 64

Squirt, The 115

SS 58, 60, 62

St Thomas’s Hospital, London 171

Stalin, Joseph 64

Stamp, Lord 84, 97, 205

Stashinstky, Bodgan 202

State Department 237–238

State Enterprise for the Production of Pesticides (SEPP) 240

stealth viruses 253

Stepnogorsk factory 245

Stimson, Henry L 95–96

Stoff 146: 65

Stokes mortar 22, 23

Stony Mountain, Manitoba 160

Strasburg University 60–61

Stuttgart 105

Substance 83: 65

Suffield testing range 94–95, 176, 177

Supply, Ministry of 114, 115

Sutton, Graham 69, 70

Sverdlovsk 223–225, 246

synthetic dye industry xii

Syria

CBW availability xi

Chemical Weapons Convention not signed 250

cyanide used against rebels 250

smallpox 249

T-Stoff 9

T2: 237

tabun (GA) 53–54, 56, 59, 61, 62, 64, 65, 67, 140, 150, 179, 241

Tandanoumi Arsenal 47

Tanganyika 216

Taranto 122

Tariq Aziz 242–243

Tass 224

Tay Minh Hospital 196

tear gas 44, 197–198

Tempsford aerodrome 90

terrorist attacks, ease of 251

tetanus 76, 79, 80, 144

Thailand 168, 236

ticks 170, 171

Times, The 6, 49, 83

Tizard Report 139, 152

Tizard, Sir Henry 152

Tokyo 251

Tomio, Major Karasaw 143

Tooele Arsenal 199

toxins, paralysing 253

trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (245T) 194

trilon 65, 66

Tripartite Agreement 177–178, 186–187, 190, 197

Truman, President Harry S 118

Tube Alloy 65, 125

tuberculosis 35, 76, 80, 156, 218

tularemia 76, 98, 144, 158, 164, 166, 170, 173, 175, 205, 221

Tutu, Archbishop Desmond 248

typhoid 76, 78, 80, 144, 156, 158

typhus 76, 80, 89, 98

typhus-infected lice 90

Uji bomb 77

United Nations Special Commission on Disarmament (UNSCOM) 241

United States of America

anthrax attacks 2001: xi

anthrax attacks by contaminated letters 251

anthrax bomb manufactured 77, 81, 85–86, 101, 104, 135

anti-crop warfare 98–100

Bagwhan Shree Rajneesh 250

Bari disaster 120–124

binary weapons developed 234–235

Britain supplied with phosgene 116

brucellosis developed 106

BW convention 174–175, 220–222, 225–226, 231