American Experience

The Living Weapon

Directed by John Rubin
TV-PG
S19 • E8    Feb 4, 2007    55m
"The Living Weapon" explores the history of America's biological-weapons program, which began in 1942 with a group that worked parallel to the Manhattan Project, and continued to 1969, when President Nixon terminated it. Included: comments from Bill Patrick, the program's chief of product development; bioweapons historian Norman Covert; biowarfare expert Martin Furmanski; historian Brian Balmer; Jeanne Guillemin, senior adviser to MIT's Security Studies Program.

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Cast of The Living Weapon

  • Liev SchreiberNarrator (voice)
  • John RubinDirector / Writer

 

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