Benjamin Baron

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Human experimentation and frequent aerial tests on cities, most notably with cholera flies and plague, killed upwards of 580,000 Chinese civilians. This deliberate biological infection was finally acknowledged by Japan in 2002. The culmination of the tests was to be a biological attack on California, using plague bombs carried by one-way flights or by timed balloons delivered on target by prevailing wind currents. Japan surrendered in the face of nuclear annihilation before the biological menace of “Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night” could be put into effect.
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
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