Biological weapons, together with nuclear and chemical weapons, are recognized by the United Nations as weapons of mass destruction. Its scientific research and development are of great concern to the world. Biological weapons are silent. Not only can they be applied to the frontline battlefield, they can also be used in the rear. If the images of French biological warfare portrayed by a European writer are purely scientific fiction, the accident at the former Soviet Union's Unit 019 biological warfare experimental base is a living fact. The past is not forgotten. Japan 73l, Ishii Shiro's evil behavior, although it has become history. But it is a constant reminder to people: be alert to biological warfare!
Shiro Ishii and biological warfare
In the history of biological warfare, there is an infamous, by the world's people forever nailed to the pillar of shame. He is Ishii Shirō, the Japanese militarist bacterial warfare maker. Shiro Ishii was a freak of militarism. In developing the Japanese army's biological weapons, he did the Japanese invaders a great service and killed countless Asian people. The world will never forget such an executioner whose hands are stained with blood. Freaks have their own freaks, and his activities in biological weapons are worthy of people's attention.
Shiro Ishii was born on June 25, 1892, in Osato Street, Chiyoda Village, Yamatake-gun, Chiba Prefecture, and was a brilliant student at the Ikeda School, a local private school. He could read and write at a glance and could not forget a single word. After learning the language one day, he was able to memorize it all overnight, and the next day he was able to recite it by heart, much to his teacher's amazement. After leaving private school, he went on to Chiba Junior High School.
Shirō Ishii's father was a prestigious local landowner. Shiro was the fourth boy in his Ishii family. There was a small village in Chiyo called Kamo. This is where the Ishii children used to play. It left a deep impression on their childhood ...... Shiro Ishii went from Chiba Junior High School to high school with honors, and then to the medical faculty of Kyoto Imperial University. After graduating from the university, he entered the Army as an officer candidate and later entered the graduate school of the Imperial University as a cadet commissioned by the Army. This led the young man to choose a career as a soldier, nurtured by the army.
Shiro Ishii was a cruel and eccentric man by nature, and as a student he applauded the gas warfare of the First World War. He was a great admirer of the German "Iron Chancellor" Bismarck and the French Napoleon. Interestingly, while he liked these figures, he also paid great attention to natural sciences, especially medicine and biology. This is rare among mad militarists. It was because of his outstanding talent that he won the favor of the chancellor of the Imperial University and eventually went so far as to recruit him as his son-in-law in the East.
After graduating from the Teikoku University Graduate School, Ishii literally rose through the ranks, completing his dissertation on epidemiology to become an M.D. in 1927, and in 1931 he was promoted to the rank of third-class chief of military medicine, major, and became an instructor at the Army School of Military Medicine, as well as an instructor at the Army's General Arms Factory. During this period, Ishii's future was profoundly influenced by two events: his trip to Europe and the "Ishii Water Filter". The former can be described as an inspiration for scientific and technological guidance, and the latter as an innovation in scientific hardware.
In the spring of 1930, Shiro Ishii traveled to Europe. The study tour had a profound effect on him, making the transition from his childhood dream of being a fascist inventor to the reality of researching bacterial weapons for the Japanese army. During his stay in Europe, Ishii examined the chemical industry, chemical weapons, and the research and progress of bacteriological weapons in various countries, especially Germany. Upon his return to Japan, he said in his report on the study tour, "If Japan does not quickly put this into practice and conduct basic research in this area, it may miss the opportunity and be left behind the times." It was this sense of urgency that impressed the authorities. The authorities resolved to make up for Japan's lack of such a facility (for bacteriological weapons research) as Ishii had suggested by establishing a so-called anti-epidemic research laboratory (i.e., the Japanese Army's Bacteriological Weapons Research Laboratory) within the Army's Military Medical School, headed by Dr. Ishii, the chief of military medicine.
Ishii had paid special attention to the study of plague bacteria before the establishment of the Research Laboratory. As early as when he was an instructor at the Military Medical School, he had done many experiments with his assistants. It is said that several of his assistants who worked on bacterial research died of bacterial infections, including the plague. Ishii was concerned about the importance of the plague for a long time, but it was only after his return from Germany that he became convinced of the theoretical importance of the plague. He believed that the gap of plague, which had been excluded by European countries, should be filled by Japanese research alone. This choice was scientifically sound. The reason why Europe, including Germany, wanted to exclude the bubonic plague bacteria from weapons was that Europe had vivid memories of the rampant bubonic plague in the region in the 14th century and talked about it with horror. Europe, then 100 million strong, lost 1/4 of its lives to the plague. The more Europe feared the plague, the more Ishii wanted to challenge and study it. In this regard, Ishii had a unique and innovative mindset. This is something to be valued in scientific research.
When it comes to the Ishii water filter, this is Ishii's first work. The so-called Ishii water filter in Ishii executioner's career and its murder of thousands of innocent lives, compared to the evil deeds, is just a small skill, but it is Ishii into the career, attracting the attention of the upper echelon of the knocking brick. Ishii's water filter is a product of Ishii's research on epidemic prevention, and it should be said that it was really used for epidemic prevention or beneficial to the people's livelihood, but if it was used in the Expeditionary Army to carry out the invasion, it is a different story. The people, including civilians, who marched, fought, and lived in the field, often got sick from drinking water from rice paddies, rivers, lakes, and ponds at will. In order to solve this problem, Ishii used diatomaceous earth, which is crushed, molded with water, and then burned into a tile jar or other shapes, and then attached to the water diversion, infusion and storage of water appliances, it becomes the Ishii type water filter. This type of water filter works well. It enabled the river water after being filtered by the fine particles of the tile ware to reach the drinking standard of ordinary water.
At that time, Japan was in urgent need of a field water purification device for operational reasons. Ishii wasted no time in bringing the device to the Army Staff Headquarters for a sales show. At the beginning of the show, Ishii asked three soldiers to go to the toilet with him and asked one of them to hold a flask. The three men did not understand what he meant, but they obeyed the will of the officer. In a few moments, the three stood on the stage, and one of them held up the flask in his hand and confirmed to the officers and soldiers of the Army Staff that the yellow liquid inside the flask was indeed the urine of the Chief of Military Medicine, Shiro Ishii. Ishii himself then maneuvered the urine into the Ishii water filter. After filtering, a stream of clear water flowed out, only slightly above room temperature. Ishii drank the filtered water and received a round of applause. The Ishii water filter has been famous ever since.
The Ishii water filter was first used in the Nomonkanbold area, where the Japanese army fought the Soviet army and the Mongolian army. Because of the vastness of the area, the movement of horses and carts was easy, so during the battle, the front-line troops were assigned to epidemic prevention and water supply squads of 10 people each, and each squad was equipped with a water supply vehicle equipped with an Ishii water filter, which moved with the troops. It is said that this large water filter can guarantee water for a 100-man company for one week. The filtered water was stored in large wooden tanks. Later, with the expansion of Japan's war of aggression against China and the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Ishii type water filter became active in the Chinese mainland and Southeast Asia in the mountains and forests, and it became a powerful equipment for the Japanese Expeditionary Forces in the prevention of epidemics.
As mentioned earlier, these were only the beginning for Ishii. In order to carry out bacteriological research, Ishii Shiro seems to have the imperial sword in hand. To money money, this point can be illustrated by just one example, to participate in the work of Unit 731, even young people, can easily and often have access to Olympus brand optical microscopes, and this kind of microscopes in a high school but it is rare to have one for students to use. To people have people, Ishii for the troops to search for all the medical talent into the 731, there are professors, doctors of medicine, doctors of science, many of them from Ishii's alma mater selected, even if some people do not want to engage in this kind of hook, Ishii can always use all kinds of tactics to bring in the net. Finally, there was the support of his superiors, who firstly fully supported Ishii's ideas and scientific research activities in the field of bacteriological warfare, secondly, excused Ishii's mistakes (embezzlement, prostitution, etc.), and thirdly, promoted and rewarded him for the results of his "work". With all this, Ishii was fully immersed in all kinds of bacteriological murderous designs ...... The 731st Bacteriological Warfare Unit, headed by Ishii, invented more than one kind of bacteriological warfare weapon.
Ishii believes that the most well researched was the Type 50 open-piston bomb. The following is testimony from the former Unit 731: "One morning in February 1944, after loading about 40 or so Chinese in the village of Pingfang in Harbin, our car drove out of the city of Harbin toward Qiqihar, and we traveled for more than four hours in the white, icy snow before arriving at the Anda Special Experimental Site. This test site is not fenced, the surrounding hundreds of kilometers of wild mountains and no one, the test personnel can not possibly escape. The Anda test site was used to conduct bacteriological warfare experiments on captured Chinese 'Marudai'. 40-odd 'Marudai' got out of the car, and although they were wearing cotton coats, they were still wearing their cotton coats. They were shivering in their cotton coats. When the officer gave the order to take their places, the soldiers tied them one by one to the cross-shaped columns. At that time, it was no trouble to set up this kind of crucifixion post, first, the snow was raked to the side, the post was set up towards the center, and then water was poured on it. In Anda's climate, even during the day, it was minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius, so the water quickly froze. The cross pillars were so strong that they could not be pulled out by human hands alone. In accordance with the requirements of the test, every 30 meters to erect a column, 40 cross-shaped columns lined up, more than 1,000 meters long, and in the middle of the row of crosses, that is, from the two ends of the place of five or six hundred meters, placed a plague bacteria bomb. The so-called bubonic plague bacteria bomb is a kind of blooming bomb, or 'Type 50 Uji type' bomb, developed by Unit 731. Its interior was made by first twisting out twisted ribs from a thin round iron bar, then cutting it into small 1-centimeter-long strips, and finally smearing the seams of these twisted ribs with plague bacillus. Such a treatment method, one is to make the bacteria easy to adhere to hang; secondly, its non-smooth surface can hide more bacteria. A blooming bomb was made by putting the core charge into a slightly larger shell, and then using the force of an explosive to blow it up, the core charge would disperse and hit the human body. At that time, a kind of denatured bacteria was used. It was 10 times more toxic than the normal plague bacteria....... Before the test began, the windbag at the test site indicated the direction, and upwind 3 kilometers away from the cross with the 'Malu Dai' tied to it, 20 to 30 team members watched everything through binoculars. At this point, we put iron caps on all the 'Malu Dai' and chest protectors made of iron plates so that the 'Malu Dai' would not be directly penetrated by the bomb hardware through their heads and chests, thus affecting the effectiveness of the bomb software. In a word, everything to facilitate the germ test and allow them to catch the disease successfully."
This bomb was Ishii's masterpiece. Ishii advocated freeing germ warfare from the narrow approach of the past, which utilized the tactical warfare of spies with a few death squads, and placing it in the position of a frontal battle in modern warfare. To do this, it would be necessary to use airplanes, artillery and, especially, airplanes to drop germ bombs.
Considering that there were many problems here, Ishii thought and thought again and again. First, a dropping airplane flying low could potentially harm itself if shot down, while flying too high, fleas might die from the thin air. Secondly, the bomb explosion generates high temperature, the flea is difficult to withstand and die, how to make the bomb explosion, but also so that the flea does not die, which is the purpose of the above repeated tests with the "road big". "One night in the middle of the night, Ishii suddenly ordered the duty officer to call for the assembly of the entire team. Everyone thought something had happened, but after listening to the lecture after the assembly, they realized that Captain Ishii had come up with a way to use pottery to make bacterial bombs." A member of Unit 731 testified. Thus with a special charge for the twist bomb and a special body made of pottery, a complete Ishii style special bacteria bomb was completed. The "Type 50 Uji Bomb" had a very elaborate design and structure. The bomb consisted of three parts: the top of the bomb with a timed fuse and explosive charge, the body of the ceramic container containing twisted steel bars, and the wings to control the fall of the bomb. The bomb had an empty weight of about 25 kg and a capacity of 10 liters, and after the bomb was dropped from an airplane, the timed fuse was detonated about 300 meters from the ground, followed by the detonation of the dispersant charge. The body of the "50 Uji type bomb" is 700 millimeters long and 180 millimeters in diameter. The wall thickness of the bomb body is 8 millimeters. The total weight of the bomb is 35 kilograms.
Bacteriological bombs can be divided into three types: ① equipped with bacterial rat, flea bombs; ② equipped with bacterial solution and can be dispersed into a bacterial aerosol bombs; ③ attached to the bacterium, the explosion can be widely dispersed shrapnel-type bombs.
These types of bacterial weapons, regardless of the type of charge, should be handled with care. Ishii said the ceramic bomb shells break easily even when subjected to very small shocks and should not be treated as rudely as ordinary gunfire bullets. But if the wall strength of the ceramic container is increased, it will be difficult to achieve the "shattering in the air without leaving a trace" that we require of bacterial bombs; in addition, the amount of gunpowder needed to increase the explosion will kill the bacteria and their carriers, such as fleas and lice.
Ishii did take great pains in the development of the bomb. Many specific problems were solved by Ishii's independent thinking. All of these design features have made the United States, Britain and other countries engaged in this type of research experts marveled ...... Ishii under the helm of the 731st unit has also developed "100 type Uji type", "A-type Type A", "Type B", "Type C", "Type D", and "Old Uji Type". "D", "old Uji-type" and other bacteriological bombs. In the history of the development of biological weapons in the 20th century, the criminal activities of Shiro Ishii have always been kept in mind. Creativity should be brought into play and inventions should be encouraged, but no one would like to see Ishii type of sinful inventions and bestial creations appear again in the history of civilization in the 21st century.
Biological weapons are hard to find
May 1, 2002, Paris, France, late spring, the climate turned warm, the sky as blue as a wash, the street green flower beds, the woods a bird song. According to the National Meteorological Observatory, temperatures will gradually increase, reaching up to 20 degrees Celsius by mid-May.
Early in the morning, a group of young men and women dressed in festive costumes appeared on the sidewalks on both sides of the road and in the open space in front of a cafe. Children carried colorful balloons through the streets. From the Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower near the sound of the band from time to time. All this indicates to the public that the festival has arrived and the city will be immersed in joy.
However, in front of a kiosk at a Paris train station, a man in his late 30s, after buying a copy of Le Figaro, suddenly felt sick and sat down on his butt in front of a step.
"Hey! What's wrong with you?" The newspaper vendor asked softly.
"I'm feeling sick and uncomfortable all over. I think I'm going to hurry home."
The man sat for a moment longer, then stood up and hobbled away from the newsstand, disappearing among the pedestrians....... "I really can't figure out what's going on here," the newsvendor told the surrounding newspaper-buying customers. "Look! Three such men have appeared early this morning, and there was even a gentleman in a black blouse who once fell headlong to the ground, and it was only with difficulty that others were able to help him up and take him to the hospital."
"That's right!" A woman chimed in, "Just now, as I was getting into my car, I ran into a female neighbor getting out. She went out and came back empty handed without even buying anything. She said she was feeling unwell. At another station, I even saw a sergeant freezing like it was winter, it's strange, it's spring, how can you freeze like that, your face is blue, it's rare."
Phenomena of this kind have been occurring in several Parisian districts since early morning. Some patients had already felt it the first night and went to bed early.
The various hospitals had already received the first patients who stayed for observation, but patients were still arriving from all directions. Aspirin at pharmacies became a hot commodity, with people clamoring to line up to buy it. To add to the bewilderment of the health experts, after noon, from Lyon to St. Etienne, from Marseilles to Valenciennes, and indeed all the cities of France, came the news that the situation was almost identical to that of Paris, and that a number of patients with the same symptoms were appearing everywhere. No one knew what was happening.
On May 2, absenteeism in factories and mines rose rapidly. The railroads, aviation and textile sectors had a high level of absenteeism that was rare in the history of France. The Evening de France called it a plague; Le Monde's through-line headline was "Influenza Sweeps the Country"; and Libération reported with more irony: "Plague Demonstration, Workers Prohibited from Going to Work." The vicious accident at France's Roissy Airport on May 3 was particularly disturbing. The pilot of a Boeing 737 suddenly fainted before landing, and the plane suddenly lost control, veered off the runway, and ran onto a highway, killing 160 people. On the same day, riots broke out in a number of cities. People began to deepen their thoughts, and the inherent humor of the French disappeared. People felt the weight of the matter. Health stations, dispensaries and hospitals were disturbed and shocked in every way. There were clashes between those who had contracted the disease and those who had not, who wanted to be vaccinated and vaccinated at any cost, while some health facilities did not have these medicines. The number of patients is increasing. Social activities began to suffer. There is talk of closing public **** places such as schools, factories and theaters. Some citizens, sensing that something was wrong, were quietly packing their bags and trying to leave the city for the countryside, and many were even thinking of expatriating, but had heard that other cities in Europe had been struck by the disease. Brussels has a cold epidemic, and Lausanne, Geneva and Munich are experiencing similarly large numbers of cases of disease. These places are considering sealing their borders because France is the source of the disease.
Three days passed, and by the early morning of May 4, France's speaker of parliament was commissioned by the president to call an emergency meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Charles Durieux, the opposition MP and elder statesman, had retired a few years earlier, never expecting to be asked to exercise his presidential powers one day. However, in accordance with the provisions of Article VII of the Constitution of France*** and of the State, he had to accept this mission because President Jean-Louis Daulat had fallen ill, and until the President recovered, he was to preside over the political affairs of the Elysée Palace. A little after six o'clock in the morning, the temporary acting president arrived at the Elysée Palace by car. The doorman was a little sudden and not very courteous, but when even the President and the Prime Minister were ill, no one cared about that. Charles Durieux slowly approached the President's bed. The President's personal physician stood aside, his demeanor serious and heavy. The president saw the Speaker's arrival and reluctantly stood up to greet him, "The government prime minister has just fallen asleep." The president whispered to his agent, "He has a fever of 40 degrees Celsius and was talking nonsense before he fell asleep. It all came so suddenly, it's unbelievable."
The interim acting president shrugged and then began to address the ministers, "Gentlemen. It is our duty to call a special session immediately. This disease has been spreading for several days. We are in a very serious situation, *** and the country is now in a period of crisis." The Minister of the Interior is not sick. He is responsible for maintaining order in the public ****, strengthening the protection of the material and spiritual civilization of the citizens, ensuring the security of public **** facilities and resource equipment. In a crisis, he has the power to compel citizens to obey certain regulations. The role of the Minister of the Interior is very significant. The Minister of Health must be responsible for the prevention of diseases and the development of measures to deal with them in relation to the population of the country.
The chaos began on May 3, and all of France was in trouble. The Minister of the Interior decided to call in the army to intervene, and in particular to get the gendarmerie out into action, so that the various types of police throughout the country could be strengthened. The adoption of this measure was particularly important at a time when so many police officers were absent from work due to illness. However, even the army's commitment did not necessarily bring the situation under control, since the number of sick people is already in the hundreds of thousands in Paris and in the tens of thousands in other cities. So far there have been no deaths, except for the indirect ones at Roissy airport, but people are afraid of getting sick and of dying. In the case of influenza, Europeans were well aware that the world's death toll from the 1918-1919 influenza amounted to 20 million, more than the combined deaths of both sides of the belligerents of the First World War. Terror caused many irrational behaviors to occur. People avoided each other as much as they feared contact with bubonic plague patients. The sick were abandoned by family members and friends, left unattended and left to their fate. The most selfish were armed with pistols or daggers, ready to kill anyone who approached them.
Near midday, the government issued a brief outbreak announcement to newspaper representatives, promising vaccinations in the next few days and asking citizens to remain calm. The government's call did not work, however. That night, clashes broke out at the border. Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Spain closed their borders.
In this atmosphere of violence, terror and tension, rumors spread faster than disease: could this flu be natural? Could a terrorist group from a rival country be behind it? This is modern biological warfare, isn't it?
The rumors and speculations are spreading, sometimes with some validation or basis, and for 2 days people have been questioning the National Scientific and Military Advisory Service (NSMAS), demanding that the international background be made public. Because biological weapons are different from other weapons, it is entirely possible for an experienced task force to carry out poisoning terrorist operations, and then quickly leave. By the time the consequence of biological warfare, an epidemic, occurs, they are long gone, far away, hiding in an inconspicuous place, gloating and watching the situation unfold. The invading force will only wait for the plague to spread through the enemy's army before moving in to take over the country. If this is the case, then the worst is to be expected, for the virus used by the enemy must have been selected. It would make all existing preventive measures useless, using a germ that could resist any existing methods of killing it.
Doctors and specialists stayed up all night reviewing information and files, and finally came up with a vaccine that seemed to be ready for injection. They quickly reported it to the Minister of Health. When they arrived at the minister's residence, a woman, probably his wife or secretary, came out to reply, saying that the minister must not be alarmed because he had suddenly suffered an unbearable stomachache and tingling in his spine at dusk, and when he lay down and tried his temperature, he had a high fever of 40 degrees C. ......1 hours later, the doctors drove back to the home of the minister of the interior. Thank God he was still alive and not attacked by illness. The doctors briefed him on the situation. After a short consultation, the minister decided to take measures. Every epidemic-proof lot, every region, every unit, both the chief executive and the personnel of the Health Department were to carry out his instructions, all movable sanitary facilities were to be put at the disposal of the doctors for the strict isolation of the sick, the disease was highly contagious, and all those who had relevant contact with the sick were to be injected as soon as possible.
But such measures were not easy to enforce and it was difficult to isolate everyone. Hospital beds are full, some medical staff are sick and absent, and many patients remain at home, a constant threat to family, friends and neighbors.
The vaccine, which was only found in France, even if it works, is only available to a very small number of people. The drug is available in some places, but there is an acute shortage of medical staff and not enough to distribute it. Moreover, injecting a large number of residents who are close to a nervous breakdown and who are not in the least able to maintain their composure will not yield good results.
The government had no choice but to declare a state of emergency in France: meetings of more than three people were forbidden during the day, curfews were strictly enforced at night, and patients were compulsorily forbidden to go out of the house. on May 7, the first patients died. The news suddenly induced a real riot. The security police were unable to control the situation. The whole of France was terrorized. In the capital, Paris, a group of hysterical rioters stormed the Pasteur Medical School at night. A few policemen could do nothing. They could barely protect the personnel from the troublemakers. In the face of violence, the guardians of the research center and the medical school left quietly. Before midnight, a building caught fire ...... People were busy all night putting out fires and rescuing hazards and valuables. Brawls broke out on several neighboring streets, and some people even heard gunshots.
More doctors fell ill, no longer able to inject or serve others, and no longer able to inject themselves. They were in despair like everyone else. The day before, Charles Durieux, the acting president in the Elysee Palace, had been the first to administer the vaccine, and other ministers and secretaries of state had taken the same precaution. But the President of the **** and the State had lost that opportunity, and the disease had so severely afflicted him that he was dying. On his deathbed, he looked with infinite sadness at his doctors, his wife and several government colleagues. God had left the President little time, days, perhaps hours at most. His wife and colleagues looked at him with attachment. All of this made the richly decorated hall seem particularly solemn, while beyond it France was in a state of chaos and clamor.
On May 8, Paris buried the first victims of the plague. If the epidemic continues, it may soon be difficult to find even the people who conduct funeral services or even gravediggers. Public ****transportation had been paralyzed, the city's supplies of all kinds had been disrupted, and life was beginning to be difficult.
By the evening of May 9, the temporary pillars holding up the **** and the State House toppled, and the acting president fainted as a result of his nightly exertions. Fate made a scathing mockery of reality: acting President Charles Durieux fell and never woke up. It was surprising that the acting president died a few hours earlier than the one being acted upon.*** The president of the country stopped breathing in a coma at 4 a.m. on May 10, and the prime minister of the government also died that morning in the Matignon region. Things had come to such a pass that the Constitution was no longer in force and power naturally fell into the hands of the military. The death rate from influenza has reached 30 percent, with optimistic experts expecting it to reach 50 percent and pessimistic ones believing it will eventually reach 70 percent.
Two weeks later, the truth finally came out. Early in the year, just after New Year's Day 2002, a group of about a dozen people rented a home in Paris. They were secretive, sometimes traveling by day and night. Their leader registered that he was selling medical equipment supplies, while others below him claimed to be practicing medicine and healing. They lived in the basement, where they processed and dispensed aerosolized mist viruses. Once everything was ready, the gangsters started moving out on April 18th. They spread the germs and viruses at air-conditioning intake holes in big stores, supermarkets and buildings, on the walls of metro stations and at railway stations with a turnover of 100,000 to 200,000 passengers. They are everywhere, even under the pretext of ornamental flowers, spreading poison and contamination in various government departments such as the Elysée Palace, Matignon, various regional governments, army barracks, theaters, dance halls, bars, and cinemas and in public **** places. The usual media used are passages, door handles, elevator switches, etc. The same activities were carried out in French provincial towns until the beginning of May. But it was understood too late. 1 month of unrest, that is, more than a month after the enemy's action, France was in a state of complete defenselessness. And the forces of ambition or terror, or perhaps the armies of hostile nations, treated with special vaccine prophylaxis were gearing up to accept the surrender of this great European power, to carry out the occupation, to meet first the biological warfare war effort that had crept into their hands, and then the challenge of the United Nations to condemn the aggression.
This is the horrific picture written by the French experts on biological warfare, and hardly anyone in the world wants this to happen, but there are those who are conducting research on such operations, as in the case of the Tokyo subway sarin incident. Therefore, it is important to be on high alert for this.
Mystery 019
A large Ford sedan sped along the banks of the Potomac River near Washington, D.C., U.S.A., and in a few minutes arrived at the Pentagon, home of the U.S. Department of Defense. Just as the car came to a stop in front of the large, city-like building, two U.S. Army civilians descended from the vehicle. Clutching their purses, they walked through a long passageway to an office in charge of foreign military intelligence. As soon as the boss-like man entered, he told his subordinates to open the pictures in their purses and put them together, while he himself walked to a writing desk and pressed a button next to the telephone ......
This was the third time that the Defense Department had accessed satellite images. Six months ago, a U.S. surveillance satellite, the Guardian, made its first sighting in Soviet Siberia, at the border of two continents, Asia and Europe. Upon receiving the report, the Defense Department requested that the area be closely monitored and continued to be scanned. The first two satellite images failed to produce readable photographs due to poor photographic equipment and atmospheric conditions in the area. The most recent photos were so crisply developed and highly resolved that some anomalous sightings were evident, so they immediately rushed to report.
After two or three minutes had passed, a colonel walked in accompanied by two aides, "Hello, it's a beautiful day with a nice breeze." The colonel exchanged pleasantries as he walked over to the conference table. "Thanks to God's help, we have finally achieved success!" A civilian official held up a whip-like indicator stick, and several people's eyes instantly followed it as it turned to the satellite photo. "At 60 degrees east longitude and 57 degrees north latitude, in the Sverdlovsk area in the foothills of the Ural Mountains in the former Soviet Union, a special building has been discovered: a long fence, dense ventilation ducts, rows of huts resembling animal rooms and this pile of various iron cages seem to be the surface features of a research unit. This blank field was a testing ground, but there was little activity. To the east of the building is a brick factory, and on this side are residential buildings ......"
"There is information that this is Soviet Unit 019." Another man interjected, "But military personnel are rarely out and about. This small building is a distribution station, with high voltage transmission lines running through it. We suspect this is a B-word biological warfare unit, but checking its communications, no obvious evidence was intercepted." "Please enter these into computer storage." The Colonel instructed his assistants to make a note of it. Suddenly, the Colonel stepped across the room under the map and marked a red star on the location of the city of Sverdlovsk in the center of the former Soviet Union, "We are interested in this. However even the most skillful doctor cannot diagnose a disease from just one symptom, we have work to do, thank you all!" Several people, including the two civilians, politely retreated, and the colonel was left alone to mull over the ...... Six months had passed, and the satellite was still orbiting and peering in its original orbit from west to east, but no updates had been sent back. But within this six-month period, the U.S. government's overseas spies were silently sending back valuable information from the former Soviet emigrants from east to west: one night in early April 1979, there was an explosion in Sverdlovsk on the eastern edge of the Soviet Union's Ural Mountains, which wasn't very loud but disrupted the quiet life of the region.
In the early morning hours of the day after the explosion, a long line suddenly formed in front of the hospital. Among them were workers, collective farm workers and soldiers. These people were draped in blankets and coats, and some of them even carried quilts. Everyone was waiting to be registered. The emergency room was packed with men, women and children. The two night nurses were busy, while almost every thermometer taken from a patient was over 38 degrees Celsius. The corridors also stood