Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | US begins building treaty-breaching germ war defence centre

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | US begins building treaty-breaching germ war defence centre: "US begins building treaty-breaching germ war defence centre

Julian Borger in Washington
Monday July 31, 2006
The Guardian


Construction work has begun near Washington on a vast germ warfare laboratory intended to help protect the US against an attack with biological weapon, but critics say the laboratory's work will violate international law and its extreme secrecy will exacerbate a biological arms race."