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Food Poison Considered As WWI Weapon
Declassified 1943 Oppenheimer letter to Fermi indicates a plan to contaminate food with radioactive poison to kill up to half a million, a project that likely stalled due to technical hurdles and military reluctance. The MIT Technology Review article cites the letter, noting other Manhattan Project figures aware of the plan.
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Cambridge, Mass
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Enrico Fermi
Technology Review
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Oppenheimer
Los Alamos Laboratory
New Mexico
Santa Fe
N.M
Fermi
Chicago
Stanford University History
Barton J. Bernstein
Library of Congress
U.S
Bernstein
Japan
Edward Teller
James Bryant Conant
Harvard University
National Defense Research Committee
Leslie Groves
George C. Marshall
Army
Joseph Hamilton
University of California At Berkeley
Radiation Laboratory