America’s Bioweapon Secrets

The pandemic has put a focus on bioweapons research in China, but the US has a history of dangerous bioweapons research of its own, carried out largely at Fort Detrick in Maryland, right on US soil.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, is home to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases where deadly agents like Ebola, smallpox and anthrax are studied

• Fort Detrick research has included testing biological agents, exposing animals and humans to toxic sprays, engineering dust to float like anthrax and creating let…