Biological weapons / Meryl Nass ; interviewed by Linda Velasquez.

Dr. Meryl Nass, from the Boaston chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, provides insights into the history and character of biological weapons. She starts with an historical overview of biological use as early as 1300, with plague infected bodies. She goes on to discuss the development of dysentary, staphylococus, shellfish toxins and mushroom toxins as possible weapons which lead to experimentation during World War II. The talk continues by examining the use of chemical weapons in Vietnam in 1970, and subsequent research upon unknowing civilian populations in the United States. She concludes by pointing out that biological weapons are not useful at a tactical level, but are more feasible for sabatoge and assasination.|BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS / Meryl Nass| interviewed by Linda Velasquez. Dr. Nass of Boston chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, provides insights into the history and character of biological wepaons. She starts with an historical overiew of biological use as early as 1300 with plague infected bodies. She goes on to discuss the development of dysentary, staphliccochili, shellfish toxins and mushroom toxins as possible weapons which lead to experimentation during World War II. The talk continues by examining the use of chemical weapons in Vietnam in 1970, and subsequent research upon unknowing civilian populations in the U.S. She concludes by pointing out that biological weapons are not useful at a tactical level, but are more feasible for sabatoge and assasination. RECORDED: KPFK, 7 Feb. 1991.