Project 112, the Glossary

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1. 71 relations: Aedes aegypti, Aerosol, Anthrax, Bacillus, Bacillus atrophaeus, Bacillus subtilis, Biological agent, Cabinet of the United States, CBS News, Central Intelligence Agency, Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science & Technology, Chemical Corps, Chemical weapon, Defoliant, Deseret Chemical Depot, Deseret Test Center, Dorset Biological Warfare Experiments, Douglas MacArthur, Dugway, Utah, Edgewood Arsenal human experiments, Enterotoxin, Escherichia coli, Fort Douglas, Francisella tularensis, Government Accountability Office, Informed consent, John F. Kennedy, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Los Angeles Times, Magnaporthe grisea, Mike Thompson (California politician), Mycotoxin, National Academy of Sciences, National Archives and Records Administration, National Security Action Memorandum 235, New York City Subway, Office of Technical Service, Operation LAC, Operation Paperclip, Operation Whitecoat, Porton Down, Project SHAD, Radioactive decay, Ralston, Alberta, Robert McNamara, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Sarin, Secretary of state, Serratia marcescens, Sheldon H. Harris, ... Expand index (21 more) »

2. Defoliants
3. Environmental impact of war
4. Johnston Atoll
5. Military projects of the United States
6. United States biological weapons program

Aedes aegypti

Aedes aegypti (/ˈiːdiːz/ from Greek αηδής: "hateful" and /aɪˈdʒɛpti/ from Latin, meaning "of Egypt"), the yellow fever mosquito, is a mosquito that can spread dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever, Mayaro and yellow fever viruses, and other disease agents.

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Aerosol

An aerosol is a suspension of fine solid particles or liquid droplets in air or another gas.

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Anthrax

Anthrax is an infection caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis.

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Bacillus

Bacillus (Latin "stick") is a genus of Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria, a member of the phylum Bacillota, with 266 named species.

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Bacillus atrophaeus

Bacillus atrophaeus is a species of black-pigmented bacteria.

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Bacillus subtilis

Bacillus subtilis, known also as the hay bacillus or grass bacillus, is a gram-positive, catalase-positive bacterium, found in soil and the gastrointestinal tract of ruminants, humans and marine sponges.

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Biological agent

Biological weapons are pathogens used as weapons.

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Cabinet of the United States

The Cabinet of the United States is the principal official advisory body to the president of the United States.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science & Technology

The Directorate of Science & Technology (DS&T) is the branch of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) tasked with collecting and analyzing information through technological means and developing technical systems to advance the CIA's intelligence gathering.

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Chemical Corps

The Chemical Corps is the branch of the United States Army tasked with defending against and using chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons.

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Chemical weapon

A chemical weapon (CW) is a specialized munition that uses chemicals formulated to inflict death or harm on humans. Project 112 and chemical weapon are chemical warfare.

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Defoliant

A defoliant is any herbicidal chemical sprayed or dusted on plants to cause their leaves to fall off. Project 112 and defoliant are defoliants and Herbicides.

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Deseret Chemical Depot

The Deseret Chemical Depot was a U.S. Army chemical weapon storage area located in Utah, 60 miles (100 km) southwest of Salt Lake City.

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Deseret Test Center

The Deseret Test Center was a U.S. Army operated command in charge for testing chemical and biological weapons during the 1960s. Project 112 and Deseret Test Center are United States biological weapons program.

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Dorset Biological Warfare Experiments

The Dorset Biological Warfare Experiments were a series of experiments conducted between 1953 and 1975 to determine the extent to which a single ship or aircraft could dispense biological warfare agents over the United Kingdom.

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Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur (26 January 18805 April 1964) was an American military leader who served as General of the Army for the United States, as well as a field marshal to the Philippine Army.

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Dugway, Utah

Dugway is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Tooele County, Utah, United States.

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Edgewood Arsenal human experiments

From 1948 to 1975, the U.S. Army Chemical Corps conducted classified human subject research at the Edgewood Arsenal facility in Maryland. Project 112 and Edgewood Arsenal human experiments are chemical warfare and human subject research in the United States.

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Enterotoxin

An enterotoxin is a protein exotoxin released by a microorganism that targets the intestines.

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Escherichia coli

Escherichia coliWells, J. C. (2000) Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.

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Fort Douglas

Fort Douglas (initially called Camp Douglas) was established in October 1862, during the American Civil War, as a small military garrison about three miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Francisella tularensis

Francisella tularensis is a pathogenic species of Gram-negative coccobacillus, an aerobic bacterium.

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Government Accountability Office

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent, nonpartisan government agency within the legislative branch that provides auditing, evaluative, and investigative services for the United States Congress.

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Informed consent

Informed consent is a principle in medical ethics, medical law and media studies, that a patient must have sufficient information and understanding before making decisions about their medical care.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

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Joint Chiefs of Staff

The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) is the body of the most senior uniformed leaders within the United States Department of Defense, which advises the president of the United States, the secretary of defense, the Homeland Security Council and the National Security Council on military matters.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Magnaporthe grisea

Magnaporthe grisea, also known as rice blast fungus, rice rotten neck, rice seedling blight, blast of rice, oval leaf spot of graminea, pitting disease, ryegrass blast, Johnson spot, neck blast, wheat blast and, is a plant-pathogenic fungus and model organism that causes a serious disease affecting rice.

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Mike Thompson (California politician)

Charles Michael Thompson (born January 24, 1951) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for (known as the 1st congressional district until 2013, and the until 2023) since 1999.

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Mycotoxin

A mycotoxin (from the Greek μύκης, "fungus" and τοξικός, "poisonous") is a toxic secondary metabolite produced by fungi and is capable of causing disease and death in both humans and other animals.

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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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National Archives and Records Administration

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government within the executive branch, charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records.

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National Security Action Memorandum 235

NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO.

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New York City Subway

The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

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Office of Technical Service

The Office of Technical Service (OTS; formerly known as the Technical Services Division (TSD) and Technical Services Staff (TSS)) is a component of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, responsible for supporting CIA's clandestine operations with gadgets, disguises, forgeries, secret writings, and weapons.

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Operation LAC

Operation LAC (Large Area Coverage) was a United States Army Chemical Corps operation which dispersed microscopic zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS) particles over much of the United States and Canada in order to test dispersal patterns and the geographic range of chemical or biological weapons. Project 112 and operation LAC are chemical warfare, human subject research in the United States, non-combat military operations involving the United States and United States biological weapons program.

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Operation Paperclip

Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945–59.

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Operation Whitecoat

Operation Whitecoat was a biodefense medical research program carried out by the United States Army at Fort Detrick, Maryland between 1954 and 1973. Project 112 and Operation Whitecoat are human subject research in the United States, non-combat military operations involving the United States and United States biological weapons program.

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Porton Down

Porton Down is a science and defence technology campus in Wiltshire, England, just north-east of the village of Porton, near Salisbury.

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Project SHAD

Project SHAD, an acronym for Shipboard Hazard and Defense, was part of a larger effort called Project 112, which was conducted during the 1960s. Project 112 and Project SHAD are Bioethics, human subject research in the United States and military projects of the United States.

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Radioactive decay

Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration, or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation.

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Ralston, Alberta

The Crown Village of Ralston is east of Highway 884 on CFB Suffield within Cypress County in southern Alberta, Canada.

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Robert McNamara

Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War.

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Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is a public airport located in Crystal City, in Arlington County, Virginia, United States, from Washington, D.C. It is the closest airport to Washington, D.C., the nation's capital, the 24th-busiest airport in the nation, the busiest airport in the Washington metropolitan area, and the second busiest in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area.

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Sarin

Sarin (NATO designation GB) is an extremely toxic organophosphorus compound.

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Secretary of state

The title secretary of state or state's secretary is commonly used for senior or mid-level posts in governments around the world.

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Serratia marcescens

Serratia marcescens is a species of rod-shaped, Gram-negative bacteria in the family Yersiniaceae.

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Sheldon H. Harris

Sheldon Howard Harris (August 22, 1928 – August 31, 2002) was a historian and Professor Emeritus of History at California State University, Northridge.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Stem rust

Stem rust, also known as cereal rust, black rust, red rust or red dust, is caused by the fungus Puccinia graminis, which causes significant disease in cereal crops.

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Suffield Experimental Station

The military research facility located north of Suffield, Alberta, operated under the name of the Suffield Experimental Station (SES) from 1950 to its renaming to the Defence Research Establishment Suffield in 1967.

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Tear gas

Tear gas, also known as a lachrymatory agent or lachrymator, sometimes colloquially known as "mace" after the early commercial self-defense spray, is a chemical weapon that stimulates the nerves of the lacrimal gland in the eye to produce tears.

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Tenuazonic acid

Tenuazonic acid is a mycotoxin produced by Alternaria species.

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The Japan Times

The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.

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U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center

The United States Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC), at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, is the U.S. Army's primary historical research facility.

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Unethical human experimentation in the United States

Numerous experiments which were performed on human test subjects in the United States in the past are now considered to have been unethical, because they were performed without the knowledge or informed consent of the test subjects. Project 112 and unethical human experimentation in the United States are human subject research in the United States.

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United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories

The U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories (USBWL) was a suite of research laboratories and pilot plant centers operating at Camp (later Fort) Detrick, Maryland, United States, beginning in 1943 under the control of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps Research and Development Command. Project 112 and United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories are United States biological weapons program.

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United States biological weapons program

The United States biological weapons program officially began in spring 1943 on orders from U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Project 112 and United States biological weapons program are Bioethics and military projects of the United States.

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United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the U.S. government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Department of Veterans Affairs

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a Cabinet-level executive branch department of the federal government charged with providing lifelong healthcare services to eligible military Veterans at the 170 VA medical centers and outpatient clinics located throughout the country.

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United States Department of War

The United States Department of War, also called the War Department (and occasionally War Office in the early years), was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army, also bearing responsibility for naval affairs until the establishment of the Navy Department in 1798, and for most land-based air forces until the creation of the Department of the Air Force on September 18, 1947.

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United States Secretary of Agriculture

The United States secretary of agriculture is the head of the United States Department of Agriculture.

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United States Secretary of Defense

The United States Secretary of Defense (SecDef) is the head of the United States Department of Defense, the executive department of the U.S. Armed Forces, and is a high-ranking member of the federal cabinet.

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USS George Eastman

USS George Eastman (YAG-39), a "Liberty-type" cargo ship, was laid down under Maritime Commission contract on 24 March 1943 by Permanente Metals Corp., Yard 2, Richmond, California; launched on 20 April 1943; sponsored by Mrs.

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USS Granville S. Hall

Granville S. Hall was a Liberty ship named after Granville S. Hall.

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VX (nerve agent)

VX is an extremely toxic synthetic chemical compound in the organophosphorus class, specifically, a thiophosphonate.

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Washington Union Station

Washington Union Station, known locally as Union Station, is a major train station, transportation hub, and leisure destination in Washington, D.C. Designed by Daniel Burnham and opened in 1907, it is Amtrak's headquarters, the railroad's second-busiest station, and North America's 10th-busiest railroad station.

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Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota

Yellow Medicine County is a county in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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267th Chemical Company

The 267th Chemical Company was a military unit of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps responsible for the surety of chemical warfare agents dubbed "RED HAT" deployed to the Islands of Okinawa, Japan and subsequently Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Project 112 and 267th Chemical Company are chemical warfare.

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See also

Defoliants

• Agent Blue
• Agent Green
• Agent Orange
• Agent Pink
• Agent Purple
• Agent White
• CFB Gagetown
• Defoliant
• Project 112
• Rainbow Herbicides

Environmental impact of war

• Agent Orange
• Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism
• Chemical weapons in World War I
• Deforestation in Myanmar
• Depleted uranium
• Environmental impact of the Gulf wars
• Environmental impact of the Israel–Hamas war
• Environmental impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Environmental impact of the Russian occupation of Crimea
• Environmental impact of the Vietnam War
• Environmental impact of war
• Environmental impacts of war in Afghanistan
• Environmental issues in Myanmar
• Environmental issues in Syria
• Environmental issues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Herbicidal warfare
• Impact of Agent Orange in Vietnam
• International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
• Kuwaiti oil fires
• Nuclear winter
• Palestinian airborne arson attacks
• Project 112
• Scorched earth
• Unexploded ordnance
• War and environmental law
• War sand
• Well poisoning

Johnston Atoll

• Acropora cerealis
• Hurricane Celeste (1972)
• Hurricane Ioke
• Johnston Atoll
• Johnston Atoll Airport
• Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System
• Johnston Atoll virus
• Johnston Island Air Force Base
• LORAN-C transmitter Johnston Island
• Operation Pacer HO
• Operation Pacer IVY
• Operation Ranch Hand
• Operation Red Hat
• Operation Steel Box
• Paul M. Gahlinger
• Project 112
• Shelling of Johnston and Palmyra
• USCGC Kukui (WLB-203)

Military projects of the United States

• Fleet Band Activities
• MKNAOMI
• Manhattan Project
• Nuclear weapons program of the United States
• Operation Bumblebee
• Operation CHASE
• Operation Castle
• Operation Crossroads
• Operation Distant Plain
• Operation Dominic
• Operation High Dive
• Operation Prairie Flat
• Operation Sailor Hat
• Operation Snowball (test)
• Project 112
• Project A119
• Project AQUILINE
• Project Adam
• Project Bacchus
• Project Clear Vision
• Project Cyclone
• Project Excelsior
• Project Gemini
• Project Highwater
• Project Hindsight
• Project Jefferson
• Project Magnet (USN)
• Project Manhigh
• Project Maven
• Project Mogul
• Project RAINBOW
• Project SAINT
• Project SHAD
• Project Stormfury
• Project Strato-Lab
• Project West Ford
• Project Y
• Proximity fuze
• SS LeBaron Russell Briggs
• United States Navy Marine Mammal Program
• United States biological defense program
• United States biological weapons program
• United States chemical weapons program

United States biological weapons program

• Allegations of biological warfare in the Korean War
• Building 470
• Deseret Test Center
• Dugway Proving Ground
• Edgewood Chemical Biological Center
• Fort Detrick
• Granite Peak Installation
• Horn Island Chemical Warfare Service Quarantine Station
• National Biodefense Strategy
• One-Million-Liter Test Sphere
• Operation Big Buzz
• Operation Big Itch
• Operation Dew
• Operation Drop Kick
• Operation LAC
• Operation Magic Sword
• Operation May Day
• Operation Polka Dot
• Operation Sea-Spray
• Operation Whitecoat
• Pine Bluff Arsenal
• Plum Island Animal Disease Center
• Project 112
• Project Clear Vision
• Statement on Chemical and Biological Defense Policies and Programs
• United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories
• United States biological defense program
• United States biological weapons program
• Vigo Ordnance Plant
• WS-124A Flying Cloud

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_112

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