korea Hagerman and Endicott letter defending their book against Milton Leitner's criticism We feel obliged to respond to John Ellis van Courtland Moon’s review of our book The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea, which appeared in the May/June 1999 issue of the Bulletin. The review dismisses our analysis of the development of the U.S. biological warfare crash program between 1950 and early 1953, and the allegations that the United States experimented with biological weapons in Korea. The reviewer’s cursory dismissal indicates that he came to his conclusions without knowledge of the documents that we used to support our analysis

smallpox The WHO adopts a resolution calling for a delay in the destruction of smallpox in the two known storage sites in the USA and Russia. In 1999 The WHO adopts a resolution calling for a delay in the destruction of smallpox in the two known storage sites in the USA and Russia. An editorial by Donna Shalala, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Clinton administration, justifies the preservation of smallpox stocks, as does the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) with a report that states, “The most compelling need for long-term retention of live variola virus would be for the development of antiviral agents or novel vaccines to protect against a re-emergence of smallpox due to accidental or intentional release of variola virus.”