[size=18]US army plans to bulk-buy anthrax[/size]THE US military wants to buy large quantities of anthrax, in a controversial move that is likely to raise questions over its commitment to treaties designed to limit the spread of biological weapons.
A series of contracts have been uncovered that relate to the US army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. They ask companies to tender for the production of bulk quantities of a non-virulent strain of anthrax, and for equipment to produce significant volumes of other biological agents.
Issued earlier this year, the contracts were discovered by Edward Hammond, director of the Sunshine Project, a US-German organisation that campaigns against the use of biological and chemical weapons.
One "biological services" contract specifies: "The company must have the ability and be willing to grow Bacillus anthracis Sterne strain at 1500-litre quantities." Other contracts are for fermentation equipment for producing 3000-litre batches of an unspecified biological agent, and sheep carcasses to test the efficiency of an incinerator for the disposal of infected livestock....
[url=http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8044]New Scientist[/url]
Next week: Bush declares war on the US; Claims wmd, biological agents found!
That doesn't make any sense...
Actually it does... they are part of a convention forbidding them manufacturing it. So they outsource to a civillian outfit...
The Sterne strain is non-lethal, but it is apparentlychildsplay to change that once you have it...
Today the US gov looks even more hypocritical than before...
Foot.
Mouth.
Anthrax.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
No No, I mean we have no doctrines involving biological weapons - it's not part of any US strategy.
It's sort of like buying a Jet when you don't know how to fly.
Not to mention the policy gurus all know its international political suicide.
It doesn't make sense from any angle.
hey, you lot have never made sense to us!
:twisted:
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
lol depending on how you look at that it's either a reflection on your intelligence or our sanity.
Either way American policy toward the military has always been rational - this is totally irrational.
Like I said before, would you buy a jet if you didn't know how to fly?
all those experiments that they do (A story I remember is they wanted aa way to turn the enemy into homo's), is all that just false briefings, or is that true chemical warfare?
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
lol all military weapons are contracted to private companies - lockheed martin being the largest.
Basically they give you an objective like "we need a weapon that neutralizes but doesn't kill" or "we need a weapon that is able to penetrate 6 feet of cement" or "we need a weapon that is able to disrupt the chain of command for the enemy.
These companies then go off and come back to the military with a string of ideas - they develop models and present them.
Thats where you hear all this weird stuff like potions that turn people into homos and such - they are projects suggested but rejected by the military.
Once they decide on something they start funding and allow companies to build prototypes - the protos of various companies are tested and the military then decides which it wants to buy - or if it wants to continue the project at all.
This takes a lot of time because it involves examining doctrines budgetary considerations and compatibility with existing technology.
Once they buy a weapon production begins immediately and new doctrines are written.
So basically the stuff you are usually hearing about are whacky projects that were never developed or developed and abandoned - thus the reason you hear about them.
But this is different - from what you are saying the military is asking for a specific item to be synthesized - Anthrax - this isn't the normal development procedure, for a product that cannot be integrated into US military doctrine - nor technology as far as I know.
It's a very strange move.