51. Late last month, Bush said Hussein must allow weapons inspectors back into Iraq to verify that he is not developing weapons of mass destruction. 52. Meanwhile, the controversy continued over administration claims that Cuba may be developing biological weapons. 53. More recently, the U.N. Special Commission reported that Iraq had developed anti-crop weapons, most likely for Iranian wheat. 54. Much of what is known about anthrax has been drawn from studies of monkeys by the United States and other nations that developed germ weapons. 55. No one has been developing tactical weapons in Russia for years. 56. Non-nuclear countries are more easily dissuaded from developing atomic weapons when nuclear states restrain their own arsenals. 57. One big problem is that the same tools, information and experiments that would be used to develop weapons are used to make drugs as well. 58. One of the biggest biological messes was brewed in an Allied attempt to develop biological weapons to balance any such German attack. 59. Our strategic interest is to ensure that Iraq cannot develop and is not developing weapons of mass destruction, and we will not entrust anyone else with that mission. 60. Patrick said he had no guilt about his long labors to develop germ weapons, only a sense of foreboding. |