Word: germ
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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What the U.S. needs, said Dr. Haas, 41, a veteran of 19 years with the Public Health Service, is a nationwide system of germ-warfare detection centers. They would operate in much the same way as a radar network for detecting the approach of aircraft. But instead of a sky-scanning "bedspring" or "clam shell," there would be, in each likely target area, a device to force large samples of air through filters on which disease-causing organisms would be trapped. Each day's catch could be analyzed to see whether any unusual microbes had appeared. So would samples...
...unusual illnesses developed, suggesting that a biological attack had been launched, germ-warfare experts would gather material from patients, alive or dead, in an effort to identify the cause of the disease. Dr. Haas frankly admitted that even with the precautions he suggested, it was still likely that the first knowledge of such an attack could come some days after it had happened, when the victims began to fall ill. However, he believes that any such epidemic would be short-lived, after casualties from the first exposure...
Next to the H-bomb and the atom bomb, there are few more controversial, carefully guarded U.S. defense secrets than the weapons of chemical and bacteriological warfare. Such an eminent bacteriologist as Johns Hopkins University's Professor Perrin H. Long has dismissed the whole subject of germ warfare as "bunk" (TIME, April 10). But last week the Army Chemical Corps's Major General Anthony ("Nuts") McAuliffe, hero of Bastogne, gave the U.S. a quick peek behind the curtain of secrecy. Addressing a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Detroit, General McAuliffe hinted that the U.S. was hard...
...Washington, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson backed up McAuliffe's warning and added a few guarded facts. Defense measures "now in effect or in preparation," said Johnson, "should prevent disastrous damage" if a future U.S. enemy used germ warfare. Meanwhile, the "program of research and development in biological warfare is being continued" at full blast...
...country, the sergeant's home. The sergeant strains to find some sense in the war's contradictory orders, its faked broadcasts, its leaflets and rumors. Eventually he crosses the enemy lines to the city of his birth and tries to start life ever again as a workman. A rumored germ-warfare attack causes the panicky evacuation of the city, and the sergeant returns to his own army and a deserter's prison camp...