Project Clear Vision
Project Clear Vision was a covert examination of
bomblets conducted by the Battelle Memorial Institute under contract with the CIA. The legality of this project under the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) of 1972 is disputed.[where?
]
History
The operation
Project Clear Vision was conducted between 1997 and 2000,bioweapons program.[citation needed]
Reportage
The secret project was disclosed in a September 2001 article in William J. Broad collaborated to write the article.[1] Shortly after the article appeared, the authors published a book that further elaborated the story.[1] The 2001 book, Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, and the article are the only publicly available sources[citation needed] concerning Project Clear Vision and its sister projects, Bacchus and Jefferson.[1]
Legality
As signatory to the BWC, the United States is committed to refrain from development of
bioweapons
. Moreover,
the US did not disclose the secret project in its annual confidence-building measure (CBM) declarations.[3] The US maintains that the program was fully consistent with the BWC because the project was defensive in nature.[2]
References
- ^ ISBN 0415422345).
- ^ Broad, William J. "U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits", The New York Times, September 4, 2001. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ Tucker, Jonathan B. "Biological Threat Assessment: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease? Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine", Arms Control Today, October 2004. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
Further reading
- ISBN 0684871599).