Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten
Opinions
© 2006/2007
J.S. Ketchum
J.S. Ketchum
Documenting a Lost Decade of Clinical Research
This is an excellent book, really well written and I probably would not change much of it.
Michael Bilton, Author and London Times writer
Michael Bilton, Author and London Times writer
I'm ashamed to say I haven't finished reading your book. I'm renewing my efforts. There have been undesirable interventions.
At our behest I've been devoting a lot of thought to the business of using a (nonlethal) disabling agent. It seems to be an excellent choice, considering the awful brutality of war. I was wondering, given human nature, that the reprieve from death might encourage more war-type violence. I'm thinking, I'm thinking.
More later, but sooner than before.
Best regards, Bob Duff
At our behest I've been devoting a lot of thought to the business of using a (nonlethal) disabling agent. It seems to be an excellent choice, considering the awful brutality of war. I was wondering, given human nature, that the reprieve from death might encourage more war-type violence. I'm thinking, I'm thinking.
More later, but sooner than before.
Best regards, Bob Duff
I received your book on Wednesday, April 11, and started reading the chapters on BZ and LSD. I scanned the book and noted the many interesting photographs you've included. One of great interest to me was that of Arnold Mandell. Arnold was a medical student who worked with me on neurophysiological experiments in the cat spinal cord in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and in the Department of Physiology at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans in the 1950s. He also consulted my husband, a psychiatrist, as a patient. I read Arnold's book about his personal issues some years ago and was very much saddened by it. Is he still alive and functioning, would you know?
I think your book is well written, well organized, and well illustrated. You have a very nice style of writing, making the reading a pleasure even though some of the subject matter is rough stuff. I wish you much success.
Adele Edison
I think your book is well written, well organized, and well illustrated. You have a very nice style of writing, making the reading a pleasure even though some of the subject matter is rough stuff. I wish you much success.
Adele Edison
I have started reading your book, and I am enjoying it, particularly because I am so familiar with the environment at Edgewood just prior to the time you were there. General Creasy was the post CO then as well. Did you ever meet Col. Delmore (the CO of our lab - CRDL, building 330 (in those days)? He was one of the good guys in the Army on post then. I will have more to write to you about when I get further into the book, after I finish reading about the decline of the Roman Empire in a new book by Peter Heather. It's a new book in one volume, not like the three volume one by Gibbon. This one is informed by DNA science and modern archeological techniques that Gibbon didn't have available when he wrote. I recommend it, if you are into these things.
All the best,
Jim Friend
All the best,
Jim Friend
Thank you for the wonderful book! It seems beautifully illustrated and produced and I am greatly looking forward to reading it, since some of the people mentioned are familiar to me, and I have long been a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Larry Koran, Professor of Psychiatry (emeritus)
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Larry Koran, Professor of Psychiatry (emeritus)
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Thanks Jim for the book. It's a compelling story and intellectually stimulating as well. Will provide further comments as I re-read same. Will be on the lookout for others who may wish to buy same.
Rick Campagna, (international attorney)
Rick Campagna, (international attorney)