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Nixon Biological Weapons Decision 1969

Nixon Decisions

  • Nixon Biological Weapons Decision 1969
  • Nixon Toxin Weapons Decision 1970

Biological Weapons Decision Narrative:

Describing the steps toward Nixon's 1969 Biological Weapons decision

Key Documents Biological Weapons Decision:

Letter A 

White House Press release

"What Policy for Toxins?", January 1970, private circulation. Reprinted in Congressional Record, U.S. House of Representatives, 18 February 1970, pp 3969.

May 28, 1969 National Security Memorandum 59 "U.S. Policy on Chemical and Biological Warfare and Agents"

"The United States and the Geneva Protocol of 1925", September 1969, private circulation, 13 pp.

November 25, 1969 National Security Decision Memorandum 35 "United States Policy on Chemical Warfare Program and Bacteriological/Biological Research Program"

November 26 1970, New York Times Bioweapons Renuniciation

January 9 1970 Washington Post Bioweapons Renunciation Editorial

 

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