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The Living Weapon
Science, War Documentary hosted by Liev Schreiber, published by PBS broadcasted as part of PBS American Experience series in 2007 - English narration
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In early 1942, shortly after the United States entered World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt received an alarming intelligence report: Germany and Japan were developing biological weapons for potential offensive use. In response, the U.S. and its allies rushed to develop their own germ warfare program, enlisting some of America's most promising scientists in the effort.
This AMERICAN EXPERIENCE production examines the international race to develop biological weapons in the 1940s and 1950s, revealing the scientific and technical challenges scientists faced, and the moral dilemmas posed by their eventual success. As America's germ warfare program expanded during the Cold War, scientists began conducting their own covert tests on human volunteers. The United States continued the development and stockpiling of biological weapons until President Nixon terminated the program in 1969. "Biological weapons have massive, unpredictable and potentially uncontrollable consequences," he told the nation. "Mankind already carries in its hands too many of the seeds of its own destruction."
Winner of the 2008 New and Documentary Emmy for research, this hour for American Experience offers an unprecedented look at over two decades of closed-door meetings, secret tests, determined scientists, and human subjects-all part of an effort to turn some of the world's most potent germs into some of the world's most effective weapons.
Produced, Written and Directed by John Rubin ; A John Rubin Productions, Inc. Film for American Experience
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