Annotated Bibliography on Biological Weapons

Farrar-Hockley, A. (1990). The British part in the Korean war

Volume I (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office).

British legions historian covers in detail British combat in Korea during initiatory year of war. Making in depth physical exercise of British official and unofficial sources he concludes that Labor political sympathies backed American/UN effort because of lessons of Munich and anti-communist stance in atomic number 63 but also had reservations ab step forward more adventurist aspects of General MacArthur's dodging and outlines reservations within British Chiefs of Staff concerning Allied decision to crossbreed 38th parallel.

Goncharov, S. N., J. W. Lewis, & Litae, X. (1993). Uncertain

partners Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War. (1993). Stanford:

Goncharov, former advisor to Soviet death chair Boris Yeltsin, Lewis, Stanford Sinologist, and Litae, Chinese inquiry

scholar at Stanford, chronicle strains in Soviet-Chinese

relations from the 1920s to the end of the Korean War. Use recently acquirable Soviet materials and Litae's interpretations of Chinese documents. Book analyzes evidence concerning origins of Korean War and Chinese army intervention. Authors conclude Stalin was persuaded by Kim il-Sung to approve and last June 25, 1950 invasion of South Korea to which Mao reluctantly acquiesced and that China under Mao's leadership entered the war for its own strategic reasons.

Harris, R., & J. Paxman. (1982). A higher(prenominal) form of killing the

figure of CIA covert operations in China, Korea and elsewhere in eastward Asia during the late forties and 1950s. Major focus is history of airline business started by General Claire Chennault to service Nationalists in China and subsequently taken over by CIA. Silent on semen war issue but acknowledges great expansion in CIA clandestine budget and covert operations during Korean War.

Zhang, S. G. (1995). Mao's military romanticism China and the

correspondent. London: Laurence and Wishart.

Wright, S. (Ed.) (1990). Preventing a biological gird race. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

hidden arsenal. Garden City: Doubleday.

Book grew out of BBC television program written by authors, British fact-finding journalists. Account is mostly devoted to the history of chemical warfare with emphasis on Britain's Porton Downs research and festering facility. British research into defensive biological weapons evolved into major effort after 1941, including development and production of anthrax bombs. Cited British Secret Service-inspired assassination of national socialist top SS man in Czechoslovakia in 1942 as first Allied use of biological weapons in war. Discusses British condense to American biological warfare R & D during beingness War II and subsequently and British experiments in Caribbean in 1950s on civilian effects of biological weapons. Discounts accuracy of Chinese/North Korean charges of germ warfare by Americans.

Author, a leading American investigative journalist, using hand sources and interviews, discusses history of development and use by America and others of biological and chemical weapons. One of earliest discussions in print of Nipponese biological weapons experiments in Manchuria in late 1930s and 1940s and their use against China. Summarizes without arriving
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