Among the National Security Archive’s unpublished materials available for researchers is the Chemical and Biological Warfare Collection. This collection of 20 boxes was compiled by Jordan Richie, a National Security Archive researcher and project coordinator, who in the early 1990s made numerous FOIA requests and conducted library and archival research on chemical and biological weapons policy, safety, proliferation, control, status, and disposal. The collection covers the time period from 1916 to 1991, focusing on the 1970s to 1980s with an emphasis on Southeast Asia. (more…)
