What’s your take on the alleged US biological attacks during the Korean War?
Pembroke’s book doesn’t take a definitive stance [1], but suggests that there probably were some attacks, albeit not on the scale that the Chinese and North Koreans alleged.
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[1] Because there has been too much disinformation and destruction of evidence for any clear conclusion to be drawn.
I agree there’s no declassified definitive proof, but I would personally be surprised if there weren’t some limited tests of active contaminants given that the USM treated the Korean War as a laboratory for the emerging Cold War is so many other ways. It’s possible the Pentagon put the kibosh on live tests, but I doubt the relevant Congressional oversight committees would have found out and even if they had, the combination of paranoia and lack of public awareness in the West to protest biochemical warfare likely made it seem much less politically perilous to proceed. So unless a moral compass stopped the tests, I don’t see what else would have, and we’re talking about militarists, so…
Incidentally, I applaud these Google engineers’ refusal to work on military projects.
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