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The War Bureau of Consultants (WBC) was a committee of 12 prominent scientists and several government consultants put together in November 1941 to investigate the feasibility of a U.S. bio-weapons program.〔The Nat’l Academy of Sciences. (2009). Committees on Biological Warfare, 1941-1948. Washington, D.C. > http://www7.nationalacademies.org/archives/index.html > Collections > Committees on Biological Warfare, 1941-1948. 〕 The bureau's recommendations led to the creation of an official U.S. biological weapons program during World War II. ==Background== Despite World War I-era interest in ricin,〔Smart, Jeffery K. ''(Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare )'': Chapter 2 - History of Chemical and Biological Warfare: An American Perspective, ((PDF ): p. 14), ''Borden Institute'', Textbooks of Military Medicine, PDF via Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, accessed January 7, 2009.〕 as World War II erupted the United States Army still maintained the position that biological warfare (BW) was, for the most part, impractical.〔 Secretary of War Henry Stimson was mindful of Imperial Germany's BW attack on the Romanian Cavalry using glanders during World War I and of its saboteurs introducing the disease into the United States among the military horses and mules being shipped to Europe (see Anton Dilger). It was also understood that intelligence reports (erroneous as it later turned out) clearly stated that Nazi Germany had a BW capability.〔Covert, Norman M. (2000), ("A History of Fort Detrick, Maryland", 4th Edition: 2000. )〕 Other nations, notably France, Japan and the United Kingdom, had also begun their own BW programs.〔Garrett, Laurie. ''Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health'', ((Google Books )), Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 340-41, (ISBN 0198526830).〕 However, by the outbreak of World War II the U.S. still had no biological weapons capabilities. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「War Bureau of Consultants」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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