11.   During the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union produced vast quantities of germ weapons, enough to kill everyone on earth.

12.   During the Reagan years the intelligence agencies began to collect new information about germ weapons and to issue reports on their spread to Third World countries.

13.   Ebright of Rutgers said bentonite could be used in germ weapons because its highly charged particles and germ spores of the opposite charge were attracted to each another.

14.   Even more significant, the armed forces lacked equipment to detect attacks with germ weapons such as anthrax.

15.   Ever since their defeat in the Persian Gulf war, they had steadfastly denied ever making any kind of germ weapons, despite much evidence to the contrary.

16.   Fearing that Iran and Iraq would use germ weapons in their war, U.S. policy makers cut off pathogen exports to the combatants.

17.   Germ weapons can be hard to make and use, contrary to myth and claim.

18.   Germ weapons, pound for pound, are usually the most potent, in some cases surpassing chemical and nuclear arms in terms of killing power.

19.   Germ weapons, they said, were judged superfluous for a state already heavily armed with conventional, chemical and nuclear arms.

20.   His book details the germ weapons that he says Moscow made, including warheads for long-range missiles.