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The allegations of toxin warfare, the so-called “yellow rain” in Laos and Cambodia during 1979-1983 and associated investigations and analyses, including field work in Thailand in 1983 showing that none of the evidence that had been cited as supportive of...

Dr. Meselson's main areas of field investigations are Herbicides in Southeast Asia, Sverdlovsk Anthrax Outbreak of 1979, and the Yellow Rain Controversy.

US government telegrams from September 1978-April 1987 documenting the Yellow Rain controversy, which Meselson documented in “The Yellow Rain Affair: Lessons from a Discredited Allegation”, with Julian Perry Robinson. Telegrams cited in the chapter can be...

Telegrams cited in reference list of “The Yellow Rain Affair: Lessons from a Discredited Allegation”, with Julian Perry Robinson. Back to entire Telegrams Database. Citation Number Telegram Number Citation 4 25420 Telegram No. 25420, U.S. Embassy Bangkok...

Ponthep Akratanakul Meselson to Akratanakul June 12, 1984 Akratanakul to Meselson August 16, 2001 James Bruno Cunnion to Bruno et al. April 9, 2007 Hugh Crone Crone to Meselson June 21, 1983 Meselson to Crone September 12, 1983 Crone to MeselsonSepteber...

Julian Robinson recorded his impressions of phone conversations on CBW issues as "Memcons." These memoranda, recorded between 1985 and 2006, cover topics mainly centered on the Yellow Rain investigation and the Sverdlovsk Anthrax release. October 8, 1980...

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...

Fireside chat with Dr Matthew Meselson, a catalyst of the Biological Weapons Convention March 28, 2025 Diplo Foundation Interview with Ljupčo Gjorgjinski DNA Papers 15: A Conversation with Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl June 4, 2024 DNA Papers 15: A...

Born May 24, 1930 in Denver, Colorado, Dr. Meselson received the Ph.B. degree from the University of Chicago in 1951 and the Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1957. He was Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry at CalTech until he...