| By dropping atomic bomb, the most devastating | | | | research programs in biological warfare and mind |
| weapon in human history, on Japanese civilian the | | | | control. Some war criminals even it employed as |
| United States had ended World War II. By | | | | consultants at Fort Detrick to continue the |
| engaging a small team of the topmost scientists | | | | programs with experiments for which the guinea |
| this weapon of mass destruction was developed | | | | pigs were U.S. soldiers and citizens. |
| under complete secrecy as part of a huge | | | | Effort needed for development of |
| research program. When the war ended the | | | | non-conventional weapons during postwar period |
| United States churned out the rubble and chaos | | | | was altogether different from that had been used |
| to find out how much its enemies had advanced | | | | for producing a super-bomb capable of wiping out |
| in their secret programs for weapons | | | | a city totally. Not depending on physics and |
| development. They found that in comparison with | | | | chemistry to master the fundamental forces of |
| the Manhattan Project the Germans' progress in | | | | nature, these novel weapons would delve into the |
| developing atom bombs was in a primitive stage. | | | | fields of psychology and biology to create impact |
| But in other spheres the Germans and the | | | | on normal functioning of biological and psychological |
| Japanese had advanced and to measure that the | | | | processes so indispensable for human biological |
| United States became preoccupied. | | | | and mental health. The U.S. would thus be able to |
| The U.S. got busy in collecting information on two | | | | push diseases as to its desire for psychological or |
| weapons in particular that had nothing to do with | | | | biological war. Such weapons had the potential to |
| conventional warfare but had the capability to | | | | be more devastating than the atom bomb not |
| impose far-reaching consequences. Basing on | | | | only because the control to of both mental and |
| volumes of information gathered from German | | | | physical health to a scale hitherto unknown would |
| and Japanese experiments applied on POWs, | | | | be at their whims but significantly all their tests |
| concentration camp prisoners and total civil | | | | and applications could be carried out totally behind |
| populations, the U.S. carried on its enemies' | | | | the curtain. |