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The project

Project Bacchus operated from 1999 to 2000 to investigate whether would-be terrorists could build an anthrax production facility and remain undetected.¹ During the two-year simulation, the facility was constructed, and successfully produced an anthrax-like bacterium.² The participating scientists were able to make about 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) of highly refined bacterial particles.³

Reportage

The secret Project Bacchus was disclosed in a September 2001 article in The New York Times.⁴ Reporters Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg and William J. Broad collaborated on the article.⁵ Shortly after it appeared, they published a book containing further details.⁶ The book, Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, and the article are the only publicly available sources concerning Project Bacchus and its sister projects, Clear Vision and Jefferson.⁷

Further reading

• Tucker, Jonathan B. "Biological Threat Assessment: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease?", Arms Control Today, October 2004, accessed January 6, 2009.
• Miller, Judith, Engelberg, Stephen and Broad, William J. Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, (Google Books), Simon & Schuster, 2002, (ISBN 0684871599).
• -- "U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits", The New York Times, September 4, 2001, accessed January 6, 2009.

References

1. Enemark, Christian. Disease and Security: Natural Plagues and Biological Weapons in East Asia, (Google Books), Routledge, 2007, pp. 173-75, (ISBN 0415422345). https://books.google.com/books?id=bT9j6lhPHHUC&dq=%22Project+Clear+Vision%22&pg=PA174 ↩

2. MacKenzie, Debora. Anthrax in Florida and New York "the same strain"", New Scientist, October 18, 2001. Retrieved January 6, 2009. https://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1449 ↩

3. MacKenzie, Debora. Anthrax in Florida and New York "the same strain"", New Scientist, October 18, 2001. Retrieved January 6, 2009. https://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1449 ↩

4. Enemark, Christian. Disease and Security: Natural Plagues and Biological Weapons in East Asia, (Google Books), Routledge, 2007, pp. 173-75, (ISBN 0415422345). https://books.google.com/books?id=bT9j6lhPHHUC&dq=%22Project+Clear+Vision%22&pg=PA174 ↩

5. Enemark, Christian. Disease and Security: Natural Plagues and Biological Weapons in East Asia, (Google Books), Routledge, 2007, pp. 173-75, (ISBN 0415422345). https://books.google.com/books?id=bT9j6lhPHHUC&dq=%22Project+Clear+Vision%22&pg=PA174 ↩

6. Enemark, Christian. Disease and Security: Natural Plagues and Biological Weapons in East Asia, (Google Books), Routledge, 2007, pp. 173-75, (ISBN 0415422345). https://books.google.com/books?id=bT9j6lhPHHUC&dq=%22Project+Clear+Vision%22&pg=PA174 ↩

7. Enemark, Christian. Disease and Security: Natural Plagues and Biological Weapons in East Asia, (Google Books), Routledge, 2007, pp. 173-75, (ISBN 0415422345). https://books.google.com/books?id=bT9j6lhPHHUC&dq=%22Project+Clear+Vision%22&pg=PA174 ↩