This maybe a stupid question before i ask it but is there really a place like where Project Blue was released from? I have always wondered about this.
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The book refers to the dead sheep incident, which was a nerve gas release at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah in 1968, which was just perfect time in that awful year to help inflame the antiwar movement and general distrust of government generally and the military specifically. That was chemical weaponry, not biological as featured in The Stand.
Nixon ordered offensive biological warfare development stopped in 1969 and all existing stores of weapons bio weapons destroyed. To answer the main question, yes, up into the early '70s, there were sites with weaponized biological agents. But as of 1969, bio warfare research was limited to defense only. Of course, that could conceivably include "defensive" development of strains to research defenses against them.
Nixon ordered offensive biological warfare development stopped in 1969 and all existing stores of weapons bio weapons destroyed. To answer the main question, yes, up into the early '70s, there were sites with weaponized biological agents. But as of 1969, bio warfare research was limited to defense only. Of course, that could conceivably include "defensive" development of strains to research defenses against them.
I don't know for sure. But I wouldn't be the least bit syrprised if there was.
If you don't thing there are labs where the Government, not just ours, cooks up germs and plays out computer scenarios with these germs? Oh yeah, they've got 'em.
...sure dere am...it why I wear tinfoil hat and underpants over my nose,,,,
If any other country has facilities like that--and we know they do--you can bet the US Govt has such facilities. I'd put money on a pretty big one in Nevada. A military friend had a job where the workers were flown in and out, no idea exactly where they were going (fairly sure it was NV, though), not allowed to talk about any of it. Gov't owns a huge proportion of land in that state, it's remote and sparsely populated, heavy security... excellent prospect that research facilities of various sorts exist there.
You have a knack for creating imagery, GNT. Though there are some that lets say linger, just a bit longer than others.
...well, they're CLEAN underpants.....mostly....
Aw . . .you're such a gentleman!
if they're your own briefs, then cleanliness isn't mandatory all the time.
...mostly just the day after "Chili Night"....
It brings to mind that classic Johnny Cash song...
Neesy
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I drive by this place every day (right around the corner from the hospital I work at!)
National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg
Yes, I guess probably we do have bio weapon factories somewhere or at least storages of them. If not, recipes of how to make etc. Reminds me of a news article I read several years ago. Several people found dead in the desert, all with the plague. Seems they had been trying to figure how to contain and transport it to the West. Lovely.
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It may be agreed upon that such places stop trying to make bio weapons, but I would go out on a limb and say that yes, many Countries will have such places. Just look at small pox - it was on the verge of complete erradictaion, mankind had nearly completely destroyed a deadly virus with the potential to spread like wild fire, instead the remaining 2 viles were kept safe "just incase it comes back, we have a starting point for a vaccine" - literal translation: "we have small pox, we're not afraid to unleash it before you guys do"
Sorry to sound like such a conspiricy nut - I'm really not, I don't even wear a tin foil hat, but do you really think America trusts Syria or Iran enough to not have their own back up plan?
Sorry to sound like such a conspiricy nut - I'm really not, I don't even wear a tin foil hat, but do you really think America trusts Syria or Iran enough to not have their own back up plan?
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I think at our lab here they have ramped up the security ever since this episode which happened a few years back:
Security procedures under review at National Microbiology Lab - Manitoba - CBC News
The former employee was trying to smuggle viruses (including 'genetic materials' from the Ebola virus) into the States and got caught at the North Dakota border! Yikes!
National Microbiology Laboratory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
well atleast he was caught lol. If i caught someone trying to do that i would 
I think that was Groom Lake, A.K.A. Area 51. For employees who don't like to fly (out of the Lost Wages airport, on the unmarked planes), there are buses.
The last I heard was that only Russia and the U.S. have official programs, but I'm sure the bad guys are trying to bribe some underpaid Russian security guard, as was rumored to have happened with weapons grade nuclear material and missile parts.
Another reason why I think it was a huge lost opportunity when we didn't establish a better rapport with Russia after the end of the cold war. This led to the rise of nationalism and Putin, who thinks he's Hitler's long lost grandson, or something.