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To the Editor.—One interesting sidebar to the biological warfare story was not mentioned in the Editorial by Dr Lederberg.¹ At the same time that the United States participated in the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention of 1972, President Nixon and Congress were shaping the "War on Cancer," which was signed into law in December 1972. This concatenation provided the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare with the unique opportunity of petitioning the White House to permit, for the first time, the National Institutes of Health to expand beyond its Bethesda campus by opening the laboratories at Fort Detrick to cancer research by the National Cancer Institute.

Using the "swords to plowshares" argument, we persuaded the administration to do just that. Indeed, our first step was not only to open (the formerly top secret) Fort Detrick to public view, but we invited the Russian Minister of Health, Dr Boris Petrovsky, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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