Ticks As Weapons Congress Seeks Answers To Possible Pentagonо The amendment, passed by the house last week by a voice vote, would require the pentagon inspector general to examine "whether the department of defense experimented with ticks and other insects. The dept. of defense was ordered to look through archives and find any proof cold war era scientists inserted lyme disease into ticks and other insects.
Pentagon To Tell Congress Whether It Used Weaponised Ticks On The Jarnefeld is the tick expert at the metropolitan mosquito control district. she’s spent the last 30 years studying ticks and says this idea of turning them into weapons is hard to believe. “it doesn’t make sense to me that someone from the military would be wanting to experiment on a creature that moves so slowly,” jarnefeld says. The amendment was put forward by rep. chris smith, who was "inspired" by several books and articles claiming that the u.s. government conducted research between the 1950s and 1970s. The u.s. house of representatives voted to compel the department of defense to disclose if it ever used ticks as part of a biological weapons program. this article addresses the narrow claim that. Pentagon ordered to tell congress if it weaponized ticks and released them into the public. some members of the united states house are concerned the pentagon may have unleashed disease infected.
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