Quotes about Germ Warfare

Hans Albrecht Bethe

Today we are rightly in an era of disarmament and dismantlement of nuclear weapons. But in some countries nuclear weapons development still continues. Whether and when the various Nations of the World can agree to stop this is uncertain. But individual scientists can still influence this process by withholding their skills., Accordingly, I call on all scientists in all countries to cease and desist from work creating, developing, improving and manufacturing further nuclear weapons - and, for that matter, other weapons of potential mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons..

Bethe was the head of the Theoretical Division of Los Alamos and was one of the Senior Scientists who developed the Atomic Bomb. At the time, he was very enthusiastic about scientists helping to stop the Germans and Japanese from winning WWII. He had been a refugee from Nazi Germany and became a great American Patriot. However, when there were tens of thousands of nuclear weapons—enough to destroy the entire population centers of the earth several times over, he urged a reduction and finally made this plea the year before he died. See {628438} for a recent expression of the principle of individual scientist’s responsibility.

Ferdinand Buisson

We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.

National Biodefense Science Board

… lack of urgency … lack of coherence … lack of prioritization … lack of synchronization

Robert G. Ingersoll

Every man that tried to spread smallpox and yellow fever in the North, as the instrumentalities of civilized war, was a Democrat.

Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.

Terence McKenna

Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means.

Freeman Dyson

Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.

Ken Livingstone

If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.

Kent Hovind

They banned DDT, not because it was necessarily bad, but because it was a great way to help population control. Banning DDT permits more human deaths from insect-born diseases, like malaria.

He was convicted of various felonies including threatening federal officials and sentenced to prison.

Jeffery Amhurst

You will be well advised to infect the Indians with sheets upon which smallpox patients have been lying, or by any other means which may serve to exterminate this accursed race.

While this is a classic quotation demonstrating the intentional use of germ warfare in early America, biochemical warfare had existed long before ranging from the poisoning of wells in Biblical times to the hurling of diseased animal and human body parts in and out of besieged cities with catapults.

Yoshijiro Umezu

Germ warfare against the United States would escalate to war against all humanity.

The Japanese had developed and tested a very sophisticated set of biologial weapons on the Chinses mirdering many However, there was great disagreement within the Japaanese Sureme War Counci as to whether or not to use the biologica weapons against the US and the allies. There were two fears. One that the U. S, also had biologica weapons and with their control over the skies of the densley populated Japan could easily retaliate and do much ore damage to Japn. The second was that letting pathogns lose might not be controllable and deadly disease could spread around the entire world as with the Back Plgue. Umezu opposed the use. This may have saved his life when he was convicted of other war crimes, he was not executed and received a life sentence.

Walter Cronkite

We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of - germs and atomic weapons.

Germ Warfare Quotes