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This book reviews the historical background for the law, policy, and science behind biological weapons in the United States: how and why the United States government initiated, sustained, and then dramatically expanded an illegal biological arms race with potentially catastrophic consequences for the human species and its supporting biosphere on this fragile planet Earth. By contextualizing the politico-legal and scientific environment in which the first biowarfare terrorist attack against the U.S. government—the anthrax attack on Congress of 2001—took place, it also seeks to shed new light on these disquieting questions: Why did this historically unprecedented event disappear so swiftly from public media discussion? Why has the FBI search for the perpetrators lost steam? Why has Congress itself failed to pursue both the specific instance and the ramifications of this terrorist attack upon it, and the failure to find a perpetrator? Why has there been no outcry at that failure? For what reasons might the true perpetrators never be found? Most significantly, Boyle probes the vastly expanded US biowarfare research and related civilian preparedness programs, revealing a discovery related to the Chemical and Biological Research Project which could lead to a public outcry at the latest escalation in the Bush administration’s violation of the Biological Weapons Convention. He then provides a politico-legal and scientific environment in which the first biowarfare terrorist attack against the U.S. government—the anthrax attack on Congress of 2001—took place, it also seeks to shed new light on these disquieting questions: Why did this historically unprecedented event disappear so swiftly from public media discussion? Why has the FBI search for the perpetrators lost steam? Why has Congress itself failed to pursue both the specific instance and the ramifications of this terrorist attack upon it, and the failure to find a perpetrator? Why has there been no outcry at that failure? For what reasons might the true perpetrators never be found? Most significantly, Boyle probes the vastly expanded US biowarfare research and related civilian preparedness programs, revealing a discovery related to the Chemical and Biological Research Project which could lead to a public outcry at the latest escalation in the Bush administration’s violation of the Biological Weapons Convention. He then provides a politico-legal guide on how to arrest the determination of successive American administrations to open the biowarfare Pandora’s Box.
