Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten
Opinions
© 2006/2007
J.S. Ketchum
J.S. Ketchum
Documenting a Lost Decade of Clinical Research
I learned of your book, Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten, from a colleague at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He monitors developments on the Internet regarding chemical and biological warfare (CBW) issues as part of his duties at SIPRI.
I am well-acquainted with the US chemical and biological weapons program, but your book should provide insights into areas outside the conventional toxic chemical warfare agents that have been the focus of my research and professional interests. I served on active duty at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, 1975-78, in fulfillment of my ROTC obligation and after completing my graduate studies in chemistry. That service was my introduction to CBW, and I have profited by what I learned and by the stories I collected along the way. I presently serve as the Senior Scientist for WMD with the FBI Laboratory Division, Quantico, where I put my knowledge of CBW to work for a new generation for whom CBW is more a novelty than anything else. Your book strikes me as a useful addition to my library and I look forward to reading it. Thank you for taking the time to write it!
With best regards, Ben Garrett
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
I am well-acquainted with the US chemical and biological weapons program, but your book should provide insights into areas outside the conventional toxic chemical warfare agents that have been the focus of my research and professional interests. I served on active duty at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, 1975-78, in fulfillment of my ROTC obligation and after completing my graduate studies in chemistry. That service was my introduction to CBW, and I have profited by what I learned and by the stories I collected along the way. I presently serve as the Senior Scientist for WMD with the FBI Laboratory Division, Quantico, where I put my knowledge of CBW to work for a new generation for whom CBW is more a novelty than anything else. Your book strikes me as a useful addition to my library and I look forward to reading it. Thank you for taking the time to write it!
With best regards, Ben Garrett
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
Just a bit past 5 PM here as I write this. You must have a friend in the Post Office. I couldn't believe how quickly your book arrived this morning. From first glance may I say congratulations on first rate workmanship and bibliopegy (sic).
This research fascinates me and I\'m dying to read your book, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
PS I grew up an Army brat, and lived at Edgewood Arsenal for 3 yrs in the early \'80s. My dad worked at BRL in Aberdeen, with which I\'m sure you\'re familiar.
Sincere thanks for your efforts. (-: Sasha is one of my heroes :-)
David Gillis
This research fascinates me and I\'m dying to read your book, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
PS I grew up an Army brat, and lived at Edgewood Arsenal for 3 yrs in the early \'80s. My dad worked at BRL in Aberdeen, with which I\'m sure you\'re familiar.
Sincere thanks for your efforts. (-: Sasha is one of my heroes :-)
David Gillis
Your impressive pre-publication book arrived yesterday. I have not been able to do more than just open the package as we just returned from a gala week-end in NY.
Thank you for the lovely inscription in the book. That may be my one claim to fame.
Your letter was fun to read. It sounds like the Commander at Edgewood Arsenal probably did himself a lot of good by inviting you as their speaker. I bet you wowed them. It must have made your wife even more proud of you.
Naomi (Goldberg) Rothstein (high school classmate and valedictorian)
Thank you for the lovely inscription in the book. That may be my one claim to fame.
Your letter was fun to read. It sounds like the Commander at Edgewood Arsenal probably did himself a lot of good by inviting you as their speaker. I bet you wowed them. It must have made your wife even more proud of you.
Naomi (Goldberg) Rothstein (high school classmate and valedictorian)
I received a copy of your book, Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten, as a birthday present, and I read it cover to cover at my day job that day! Fortunately it was really slow in the museum so my boss didn't have a fit.
Thank you for writing such an engaging, direct account of your experiences! I wish the binding had been a little better so it could be a coffee table book in the gallery (along with "100 Suns", my favorite photographic book of warhead testing) but that is the breaks with self-publishing sometimes.
I still really appreciate it, especially as a counterpoint to the post-Cold War, post- September 11 2001 paranoia and conspiracy madness regarding the US Government and the US military. Not every "classified project" is the Tuskegee Experiment, kids (or even MK ULTRA)... and not every "secret facility" is Abu Grahib (shudder). Geeez. War can be a factor for societal development and change as much as a vehicle for destruction; there's so much we wouldn't have now in the world of medicine and science if it wasn't for our phenomenal transcontinental cockfight with the Russians (scary as it occasionally was during the Reagan era).
1000 thanks.
Sincerely, Ann S Koi, Catalyst Studios
Thank you for writing such an engaging, direct account of your experiences! I wish the binding had been a little better so it could be a coffee table book in the gallery (along with "100 Suns", my favorite photographic book of warhead testing) but that is the breaks with self-publishing sometimes.
I still really appreciate it, especially as a counterpoint to the post-Cold War, post- September 11 2001 paranoia and conspiracy madness regarding the US Government and the US military. Not every "classified project" is the Tuskegee Experiment, kids (or even MK ULTRA)... and not every "secret facility" is Abu Grahib (shudder). Geeez. War can be a factor for societal development and change as much as a vehicle for destruction; there's so much we wouldn't have now in the world of medicine and science if it wasn't for our phenomenal transcontinental cockfight with the Russians (scary as it occasionally was during the Reagan era).
1000 thanks.
Sincerely, Ann S Koi, Catalyst Studios