Biggest laugh I've had for awhile...

[quidditchgrrl]

Last night Honeybunch and I were watching TV (either the History channel, A&E or something along those lines) and we came across a documentary about the history and development of the chemical/biological weapons programs in various countries. Very interesting - lots of information about WWI and all of the treaties and conventions that have been signed (and ignored) over the last 70 years or so. Good discussion about the capablilites of the USSR and modern-day Russia. The things the Japanese did to the Chinese are truly sickening (and the US intelligence guy explaining that while those human experiments were terrible, they were also very informative to us, made my stomach churn). Amusing to see the US Army touring Russian Intelligence through abandoned biological buildings at Fort Detrick in the late 80s.

The show did claim, however, that we (meaning the UN, I believe) were under a non-proliferation ordinance and that the US doesn't stockpile or do weapons testing anymore.

*raises eyebrow* A simple matter of semantics, I'm sure.

Back to work!

Comments

Semantics

[water-witch.livejournal.com]

(sighs) The really sad thing is that politics is always a matter of semantics oh and I forgot, lies!

Re: Semantics

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, we spent the last 15 minutes of the program with our eyebrows raised and laughing our rear ends off. It was kind of pathetic how the show completely toed the line as regards current chemical/biological testing; some folks'll believe anything!