STARTING IN MAY 1971, the Department of Defense began destroying its biological weapons stockpile: 220 pounds of anthrax, 804 pounds of tularemia, 334 pounds of Venezuelan equine encephalitis, 4,991 gallons of Venezuelan equine encephalitis in liquid suspension, 5,098 gallons of Q fever, and tens of thousands of bombs.

Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Sec…, loc. 1145