Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 200
Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-0-8476-7579-1 • Hardback • February 1989 • $143.00 • (£110.00)
978-0-8226-3001-2 • Paperback • February 1999 • $19.95 • (£14.99)
978-0-7425-7389-5 • eBook • February 1989 • $18.50 • (£13.99)
Leonard Cole is professor of political science at Rutgers University.
Chapter 1 Foreword by Senator Alan Cranston
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Clouds of Secrecy: Introduction
Chapter 4 Infecting the Enemy: Biological Warfare in the Past, and the Road to Testing
Chapter 5 Living Near Gruinard Island
Chapter 6 Fort Detrick's Mysteries
Chapter 7 The Army's Germ Warfare Simulants: How Dangerous Are They?
Chapter 8 Airborne in the U.S.A.: Open Air Vulnerability Tests in Minneapolis, St. Louis, and the New York City Subway System
Chapter 9 Edward Nevin and the Spraying of San Francisco
Chapter 10 The Trial
Chapter 11 Terror or Error: The Yellow Rain Puzzle
Chapter 12 Engineering Genes for Defense: Recombinant DNA Technology and Biological Warfare
Chapter 13 Return to Testing: Field Experiments, the Dugway Issue, and Ethical Questions
Chapter 14 Worries and Ambiguities
Chapter 15 Appendices
Chapter 16 Index
Cole . . . effectively buttresses his arguments with evidence from primary sources and makes a solid, easily readable case for the need for public and congressional oversight.
— Choice Reviews
Cole's book addresses a serious structural problem of constitutional democracy. It is obvious from a reading . . . that the public should demand more protection and Congress should mandate it.
— Science
Clouds of Secrecy focuses on the major issue in our state at this time. I commend it to every Utahan and to every American.
— Professor Edwin Firmage, School of Law, University of Utah
. . . Through painstaking investigation of participants and publications, he has written not only a real horror story but, even more important, shown how conscientious individuals were led to risk the health and even the lives of fellow Americans in several cities.
— Poltics and The Life Sciences
Cole has produced a penetrating study of the Army's clandestine 20-year biological warfare testing operation. . . . a persuasive case that Army planners knew-or should have known-they were exposing the young, the old and the medically 'compromised' to infections at 239 sites around the country.
— David Wier, New York Times Book Review