Synopsis

"The Living Weapon" chronicles the history of the United States' biological weapons program, a project initiated in 1942 alongside the Manhattan Project and maintained until its termination by President Nixon in 1969. The work incorporates insights from Bill Patrick, who headed product development for the program; Norman Covert, a historian of bioweapons; Martin Furmanski, a specialist in biowarfare; Brian Balmer, a historian; and Jeanne Guillemin, senior advisor to MIT's Security Studies Progra