‘Testing Biological Weapons’: The Unfathomable Darkness of Prioritized Military Affairs

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‘Testing Biological Weapons’: The Unfathomable Darkness of Prioritized Military Affairs
Okinawa Times, Japan
Translated By Taylor Cazella
13 January 2014
Edited by Gillian Palmer

Cause an artificial outbreak of rice blast disease (magnaporthe grisea), which is quite harmful to rice plants, by spreading large quantities of rice blast fungus... This was made public in a U.S. military report: Starting in the 1960s before the return of sovereignty, the U.S. military — which governed Okinawa at the time — spread rice blast fungus and was recording data from that experiment in order to open lines of research into biological weapons.

Beginning in the ‘60s, the U.S. military — under orders from Secretary of Defense McNamara — proceeded with a plan to develop chemical weapons, code-named “Project 112.” Based upon that plan, 13,000 tons of poison gas were unloaded onto White Beach in 1963, and stored in a zone of Chibana Ammunition Depot called the “Red Hat Area.”

It is a “well-known fact” that nuclear weapons were stored in large quantities within Okinawa, which was under the exclusive governance of the U.S. military. However, Okinawa was also Asia’s largest storage base of chemical weapons. And recently, the now-public outdoor testing that was conducted for the development of biological weapons is thought to be linked to “Project 112” as well.

The report acquired joint communications using the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. According to these communications, from 1961 to 1962, testing was conducted on at least 12 occasions. “Nago,” “Shuri,” “Ishikawa” and other concrete names of places are also listed.




unhappycamper comment: For much of the Vietnam 'war' US bases in Okinawa were used to store chemical and nuclear weapons. Without telling the locals.