The Achievement in Biological Warfare Research

Between October 1945 and June 1947 the CWS published a total of 156 scientific and technical papers based upon wartime research and development at Camp Detrick and presented 28 other papers at scientific meetings. 

Some of the material of this report appeared in Military Surgeon, 98 (1946), 237-42, and in Science, 103 (31 May 46), 662-63. See also George W. Merck, Peacetime Implications of Biological Warfare, Chemical and Engineering News, 24 (25 May 46), 1346-49. 

In evaluating the magnitude of American BW achievement it should be remembered that the United States began operations with British and Canadian experience to draw on and with the added advantages over these allies of almost unlimited funds and personnel and with the finest facilities obtainable. There was also some justice in the remark reported by the chief of technical operations at Camp Detrick, after a visit to his British counterpart in 1944, that there was a certain amount of duplication of effort in the several countries that we in the States [did] not take full account of their fundamental studies and. . . attacked de novo problems which they had solved satisfactorily.  

It could not, perhaps, have been otherwise. Despite its kinship with 

A series of implications drawn from American experience in BW research was reported in 1946 in a public document prepared by former officials of the United States Biological Warfare Committee. There it was asserted that the development of agents for biological warfare was possible in many countries, large and small, without vast expenditures of money or the construction of large-scale production facilities. It was quite 

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