Did the US use bioweapons in Korea?
By David Isenberg Current events have brought a controversial 1998 book,The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea by Stephen Endicott and Edward Hagerman, which alleges that the United States used biological weapons against North Korea, back into the news. On January 27, Asia Times Online wrote in the Letters section: “The Endicott/Hagerman book was also reviewed by Stephen E Ambrose, one of America’s most respected military historians, thus: ‘This book is disturbing to an extreme degree. As prosecutors, Hagerman and Endicott present a strong case. They cannot be said to be dispassionate, but they are careful, even judicious. At a minimum their research and revelations raise questions about the possible use of biological warfare by the United States in the Korean War that must be answered before we indulge in further moral condemnation of Iraq’s research and development of a germ-warfare capability.'” At a time when the United States is threate
