The present international situation requires a re-evaluation of the BW program,” the committee’s report began. The United States was inadequately prepared. “The current situation demands an acceleration of BW research and development activities.” The committee recommended intensified work on Q fever, rabbit fever, and plague, in addition to a number of animal and plant diseases, including hog cholera, wart hog disease, anthrax, and “virulent races of wheat, oat, barley and rye rusts.”

Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Sec…, loc. 139