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This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
As World War II came to a close, the United States embarked on a decades-long biological and chemical weapons development program. It was seen as the next frontier of warfare, along with nuclear weaponry. The program was carried on throughout the Cold War and paralleled the nuclear arms build-up, but had a much lower profile and markedly reduced funding. Just as with the nuclear arms race, however, the chemical-biological build-up came to a halt in the 1970s, when most western nations agreed that the prospect of a large-scale biological, chemical, or nuclear attack was too horrific to contemplate.