American Experience
Season 19 Episode 8 - The Living Weapon
6.6 ?
1988
Documentary
"The Living Weapon" explores the history of America's biological-weapons program, which began in 1942 with a group that worked parallel to the Manhattan Project, and continued to 1969, when President Nixon terminated it. Included: comments from Bill Patrick, the program's chief of product development; bioweapons historian Norman Covert; biowarfare expert Martin Furmanski; historian Brian Balmer; Jeanne Guillemin, senior adviser to MIT's Security Studies Program.
Episodes in Season 19
1
Eyes on the Prize (1 & 2): Awakenings 1954-1956 / Fighting Back 1957-1962
55 min
2
Eyes on the Prize (3 & 4): Ain't Scared of Your Jails 1960-1961/No Easy Walk 1961-1963
55 min
3
Eyes on the Prize (5 & 6): Is This America? 1963-1964 / Bridge to Freedom 1965
55 min
4
Test Tube Babies
55 min
5
The Great Fever
55 min
6
The Gold Rush
55 min
7
The Berlin Airlift
55 min
8
The Living Weapon
55 min
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9
New Orleans (1 & 2)
55 min
10
Sister Aimee
55 min
11
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
55 min
12
Summer of Love
55 min
13
The Mormons (1): History
55 min
14
The Mormons (2): Church and State
55 min
15
Alexander Hamilton
55 min