Documentation Related to the Sunshine Project Press Release

"US Considers Offensive Biological Weapons" (8 May 2002)

 

US Military Laboratories' Offensive Biological Weapons Proposals

Enhanced Degradation of Military Material
proposal by the Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC) released to the Sunshine Project
by the Marine Corps System Command (MARCORSYSCOM) under FOIA Request 0084F-01.

Anti-Material Biocatalysts and Sensors
proposal by Armstrong Laboratories, Brooks Air Force Base (San Antonio, TX),
released by MARCORSYSCOM under FOIA Request 0084F-01

[See also: "Biofouling and Biocorrosion" (INEL, Idaho Falls, ID), added 24 May]

 

Correspondence: National Academies' Suppression of Public Access
Information on Biological and Chemical "Non-Lethal" Weapons

National Academies e-mail (html) providing the Public Access File Bibliography (pdf) for the
Study "An Assessment of Non-lethal Weapons Science and Technology" (12 March 2002)

National Academies e-mail from Dr. Dev Mani explaining lack of release, with response
from the Sunshine Project (3 May 2002, html)

Sunshine Project Memorandum to Members of the NAS Panel "An
Assessment of Non-lethal Weapons Science and Technology" (6 May 2002, html)

 

Tip of the Iceberg?

Combined bibliography of 147 public, unclassified documents requested by the
Sunshine Project from the Marine Corps and the National Academies.

To date, only eight have been released.