#  CBW Correspondence 

 



Dr. Meselson's correspondence, 1958-2024, related to US government deliberations concerning CBW weapons and CBW arms control and disarmament starting in the Presidency of John F. Kennedy, leading to the decisions by President Richard M. Nixon in 1969 and 1970 to renounce biological and toxin weapons, to seek Senate approval of the 1925 Geneva Protocol, and to support the UK Draft Convention prohibiting biological weapons and subsequent events leading to US ratification of the Geneva Protocol, the Biological Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention and subsequent implementation of the BWC and the CWC in the US and abroad. Also included is correspondence related to the military use of herbicides, the Sverdlovsk anthrax outbreak of 1979, and the Yellow Rain allegations.

The most comprehensive collection of thousands of letters is arranged chronologically under Correspondence by Year. Selected letters to and from key individuals in this chronology are grouped under Key Persons. If there is a specific person or topic of interest, use the search function to include all correspondence and writings.



 

##  CBW Correspondence 

 





###    Correspondence by Year  expand\_more  

 

[1955](/1955)  
[1959](/1959)  
[1962](/1962-0 "1962")  
[1963](/1963 "1963")  
[1964](/1964 "1964")  
[1965](/1965 "1965")  
[1966](/1966 "1966")  
[1967](/1967)  
[1968](/1968)  
[1969](/1969)  
[1970](/1970 "1970 ")  
[1971](/1971 "1971")  
[1972](/1972 "1972")  
[1973](/1973)  
[1974](/1974)  
[1975](/1975)  
[1976](/1976)  
[1977](/1977)  
[1978](/1978)  
[1979](/1979)  
[1980](/1980)  
[1981](/1981)  
[1982](/1982)  
[1983](/1983)  
[1984](/1984)  
[1985](/1985)  
[1986](/1986)  
[1987](/1987)  
[1988](/1988 "1988")  
[1989](/%20https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/meselsonarchive/1989)  
[1990](/1990)  
[1991](/1991)  
[1992](/1992)  
[1993](/1993)  
[1994](/1994 "1994")  
[1995](/1995)  
[1996](/1996)  
[1997](/1997)  
[1998](/1998)  
[1999](/1999)  
[2000](/2000)  
[2001](/2001)  
[2002](/2002)  
[2003](/2003)  
[2004](/2004)  
[2005](/2005)  
[2006](/2006)  
[2007](/2007)  
[2008](/2008)  
[2009](/2009)  
[2010](/2010)  
[2011](/2011)  
[2012](/2012)  
[2013](/2013)  
[2014](/2014)  
[2015](/2015)  
[2016](/2016)  
[2017](/2017 "2017")  
[2018](/2018 "2018")  
[2019](/2019 "2019")  
[2020](/2020 "2020")  
[2021](/2021)  
[2022](/2022)  
2023



 

 

 



###    Correspondence by Subject  expand\_more  

 

[Herbicides](/herbicides-correspondence "Herbicides Correspondence")  
International Conventions  
Nixon Decisions  
[Sverdlovsk Anthrax Outbreak](/sverdlovsk-correspondence "Sverdlovsk Correspondence")  
[Yellow Rain](/yellow-rain-correspondence "Yellow Rain Correspondence")



 

 

 



###    Key Persons  expand\_more  

 

[General Creighton Abrams](/file_url/3884)  
[Willy Brandt](/file_url/3885)  
[McGeorge Bundy](https://meselsonarchive.hsites.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum7261/files/2025-04/McGeorge%20Bundy%20corespondence.pdf)  
[Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker](/file_url/3886)  
Joseph Campbell  
[Paul Doty](/file_url/3887)  
[William Epstein](/file_url/3894)  
[Senator William Fulbright](/file_url/3893)  
Richard Garwin  
[Christopher C. (Kit) Green](https://meselsonarchive.hsites.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum7261/files/2025-08/Green%20correspondence.pdf)  
Seymour Hersh  
[Martin Kaplan](/file_url/3895)  
[Henry Kissinger](https://meselsonarchive.hsites.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum7261/files/2025-04/kissinger_correspondence_3.pdf)  
George Kistiakowsky  
[Joshua Lederberg](/file_url/3892)  
[Congressman Richard McCarthy](/file_url/3896)  
[Frances McNamara](/file_url/1090)  
Robert Mikulak  
[Philip Noel-Baker](/file_url/3891)  
[Linus Pauling](/file_url/3888)  
[Julian Robinson](/file_url/3897)  
[Nikita Smidovitch](/file_url/3890)  
[Han Swyter](/file_url/3889)  
[Solly Zuckerman](/file_url/3483)



 

 

 



###    Electronic Communications  expand\_more  

 

**Telephone Conversations**

[ - Julian Robinson Memcons](/robinson-memcons)

**Email**

[- email by year](/electronic-communication-email-chronology "Email Chronology")

[- email by Subject](/email-topics "Email Topics")

[- email Key Persons](/email-key-persons "Email - Key Persons")

**Telegrams**

[- Yellow Rain](/yellow-rain-telegrams "Yellow Rain Telegrams")