Talk:Statement on Chemical and Biological Defense Policies and Programs

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Did you know... that the U.S. Army continued production of staphylococcus enterotoxin type B for several months after a 1969 policy statement ended the biological warfare program?

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--IvoShandor (talk) 05:48, 22 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

General comment on a means to a lead image[edit]

The perfect lead image for this article exists, if anyone with access to the material cares to contribute, and, please do. Here is the means: There exists a U.S. government video/film of Richard Nixon giving the speech that was this statement. Footage of the news conference was used in a PBS documentary called The Living Weapon, an installment of the American Experience series. While the PBS footage may have been news agency film, I find it hard to believe that the Nixon administration, so keen on recording Oval Office business, wouldn't have documented this pivotal action via official White House means. Any material recorded by the White House would be public domain per U.S. law. So, if someone were to have access to this video, and had the ability to digitize it they could create a screenshot of Nixon giving the speech, as well as uploading the video to Commons to be included there and here.

I figure this video could be found three places, the aforementioned Living Weapon show, which may or may not be public domain, the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California, or, this declaration may be important enough to be included in some kind of general National Archives Collection in or around D.C. --IvoShandor (talk) 16:22, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The role of the scientists[edit]

I recently participated in a panel where Stuart J. Russell listed this as an example of scientists successfully lobbying politicians to do the right thing. However this page only talks about the politicians. Could someone please put the full story here? (sorry I don't have time to figure it out myself!)--Joanna Bryson (talk) 16:00, 25 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly this article is incomplete. I don't participate much around here anymore, but perhaps will eventually expand this one as I thought it was rather decent. I would point out that the article does in fact mention both Matthew Meselson and Paul M. Doty (both men are/were scientists) as well as briefly mentioning their "colleagues". It could definitely use more detail though. See the "Push for a U.S. ban" section to read about Meselson and Doty. IvoShandor (talk) 20:24, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]