US biological weapons reportedly tested in Japan's Okinawa in 1960s

[jakeXT]

Source: AFP

The US army reportedly conducted field experiments of biological weapons, which could harm rice cropping, in the Japanese island of Okinawa in the early 1960s.

The same experiments were also conducted on the US mainland and in Taiwan, Kyodo news agency reported, citing US military documents it said it had obtained.

The US is "believed to have had China and Southeast Asia in mind in developing such crop-harming agents", the report stated.

In the tests conducted at least a dozen times between 1961 and 1962, rice blast fungus was released over rice fields and data was collected on how it affected rice production, Kyodo said, citing the documents.

Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-12/an-japan-okinawa-weapons/5196224

[newfie11]

2. Do we have psychos in charge?

What the hell is wrong with country?
Must find new ways to kill, starve, torture.
Do these folks get off on hurting others!

[L0oniX]

7. We tax payers are complicit.

[jwirr]

8. Absolutely.

[Pterodactyl]

9. Well, Kennedy was on all sorts of drugs at the time.

[MyNameGoesHere]

3. Tell me again why we oppose everyone else from having biological weapons?

I seem to have forgotten.

[L0oniX]

6. Silly! They are supposed to aquire them from us ...just like all the other weapons of war.

[Jesus Malverde]

4. Used in Vietnam?

We know the US used nerve gas in Vietnam and the chemicals weapon agent orange...

It's unlikely they were restrained in their zeal to kill the Vietnamese to not attack their rice crops.

[L0oniX]

5. So uh ...about that "live longer" Okinawa diet TV commercial ...uhm ...WOO!