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  1. 10-21-2006, 03:15 PM #1
    Jason McCullough
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    Churchill wanted to bomb Germany with anthrax?

    I missed this one when it came out. I'm reading Mike Davis's Dead Cities, and he claims Churchill had a plan to carpet-bomb Germany with anthrax.

    I can't find much about it outside of recursive discussions of the book; anyone have more details?
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  2. 10-21-2006, 03:52 PM #2
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    I've heard about it. It was supposed to be an anti-agriculture weapon, killing livestock, rather than directly an anti-personnel weapon. Churchill planned it when things were going badly for Britain as kind of a desperation ploy.
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  3. 10-21-2006, 04:56 PM #3
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    Have you read City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, and Late Victorian Holocausts?

    Dead Cities is all kinds of awesome. While shift6 and I were in LA, I told Tom to pick it up. I don't know if he has or not. True story!
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  4. 10-22-2006, 06:08 AM #4
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    Before visiting LA, you must read Davis's Ecology of Fear.
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