# Bibliography: Matthew Meselson

## Chemical and Biological Warfare Issues

Review of Tomorrow's Weapons, Chemical and Biological by Jacquard Hirshon Rothschild, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, October 1964, pp 35-36.

"A Proposal to Inhibit the Development of Biological Weapons", Proceedings of the Fourteenth Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, April 1965, pp 297-304.

"The U.S. and the Geneva Protocol of 1925", 1966, private circulation, 4 pp.

"Detection of Remote Biological Weapons Field Tests", December 1966, private circulation, 12 pp.

"Proliferation of CB Warfare", with John T. Edsall, Science, 26 May 1967, p 1029.

"Four Questions Regarding U.S. CBW Policies", 1968, private circulation, 3 pp.

"The Yemen", in CBW: Chemical and Biological Warfare, ed. Steven Rose, Beacon Press, Boston, 1969, pp 99-101.

"Preventing CBW", in CBW: Chemical and Biological Warfare, ed. Steven Rose, Beacon Press, Boston, 1969, pp 163-171.

"Why Not Poison?", a review of Chemical Warfare: A Study in Restraints, by Frederic J. Brown, Science, 15 April 1969, pp 413-414.

"The Position of Various Nations During the Interwar Period Regarding the Prohibition of the Use in War of Tear Gas Under the Geneva Protocol of 1925", May 1969, private circulation, 4 pp.

"Possible Rules Concerning the Use in War of Non-Lethal Gas", 10 May 1969, private circulation, 5 pp.

"The Status of Tear Gas and Other Sensory Irritants in Chemical Warfare

", with J.P. Perry Robinson, Submission to the United Nations Expert Group on Chemical and Biological Weapons from the Pugwash Chemical and Biological Warfare Study Group, 23 May 1969, 5 pp. Statement at hearing: Chemical and Biological Warfare, Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, secret hearing held 30 April 1969, sanitized and printed 23 June 1969, 50 pp. (GPO 30-300)

"The Use of CS in Vietnam

" July 1969, private circulation, 2 pp. Participation in Proceedings of the Conference on Chemical and Biological Warfare, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Salk Institute, 25 July 1969, 138 pp.

"Escalation of Chemical Warfare

", with Julian Perry Robinson, New Scientist, August 1969, pp 339-341.

"The United States and the Geneva Protocol of 1925

", September 1969, private circulation, 13 pp.

"Chemical and Biological Weapons--What should U.S. Policy Be? ", statement of Matthew Meselson, Congressional Record, U.S. House of Representatives, 3 November 1969, pp H10461-H10464.

"Chemical and Biological Weapons - The Facts", in The Supreme Folly: Chemical and Biological Weapons, NCLC Publishing Society, London, November 1969, pp 3-6.

"Behind the Nixon Policy for Chemical and Biological Warfare", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 1970, pp 23-33.

Review of "The Ultimate Folly " by Richard D. McCarthy, Book Week/ Chicago Sun-Times, January 1970, p 6.

"Symposium on Chemical and Biological Warfare ", forward, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 1970, Vol. 65, pp 250-252.

"Use of Tear Gases in War: An American View ", with R.R. Baxter, letter to The Times (London), February 1970.

"What Policy for Toxins? ", January 1970, private circulation. Reprinted in Congressional Record, U.S. House of Representatives, 18 February 1970, pp E1042-E1043.

"Controlling Biological and Chemical Weapons " in March 4 - Scientists, Students and Society, ed. Jonathan Allen, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., June 1970.

"Chemical and Biological Weapons ", Scientific American, May 1970, Vol. 222, pp 3-13.

"Riot Control Agents and United States Ratification of the Geneva Protocol ", 22 June 1970, private circulation, 6 pp.

"Chemical and Biological Weapons: The Hazard for Mankind ", World Health, October 1970, pp 18-29. Contributions to Health Aspects of Chemical and Biological Weapons: Report of a WHO Group of Consultants, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1970. Statement at hearings: Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1971, Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, part 1, U.S. Senate, 1970, pp 1143-1159. (GPO 44-970)

"Preliminary Report--Herbicide Assessment Commission of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ", with A. H. Westing, J. D. Constable and Robert E. Cook, 30 December 1970, private circulation, 8 pp. Reprinted in Congressional Record, U.S. Senate, Vol. 118-part 6, 3 March 1972, pp 6806-6807.

"Background Material Relevant to Presentations at the 1970 Annual Meeting of the AAAS ", Herbicide Assessment Commission of the AAAS, with A.H. Westing and J.D. Constable, December 1970, private circulation, 48 pp. Reprinted in Congressional Record, U.S. Senate, Vol. 118-part 6, 3 March 1972, pp 6807-6813.

"The Military Value and Political Implications of the Use of Riot Control Agents in Warfare ", with Stuart Blumenfeld, in The Control of Chemical and Biological Weapons, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, New York, 1971, pp 64-93.

"Tear Gas in Vietnam and the Return of Poison Gas ", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 1971, pp 17-19.

"Tear Gas in War: The Historical Record of U.S. Opposition ", with Christopher Leman, March 1971, private circulation, 3 pp. Reprinted in The Geneva Protocol of 1925, Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, October 1972, pp 428-430. (GPO 58-743) Statement at hearings: The Geneva Protocol of 1925, Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, 1971, printed October 1972, pp 353-377. (GPO 58-743)

"Gas Warfare and the Geneva Protocol of 1925 ", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, February 1972, pp 35-37.

"The Ecological Impact of Large Scale Defoliation in Vietnam ", with John Constable, Sierra Club Bulletin, April 1971, Vol. 56, pp 4-9.

"Turning Off the Gas ", Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 1971, p 17. Reprinted in the Congressional Record, U.S. House of Representatives, 2 June 1971, p E5564.

"Defoliants in Vietnam ", with John Constable, letter to The Times (London), 16 June 1971.

"Herbicides, Irritant Gas and the Geneva Protocol ", The University of Chicago Magazine, July 1971, Vol. 64, pp 30-31.

"Crop Destruction in Vietnam and Elsewhere ", with John Constable, letter to The New York Times, 4 August 1971, p 30.

"Present Status of the Geneva Protocol ", 4 August 1971, private circulation, 2 pp.

"Should the U.S. Conduct Biological Research in Secret? ", 9 August 1971, private circulation, 2 pp.

"Phasing Out the Military Use of Herbicides ", 1 November 1971, private circulation, 2 pp.

"Summary of ESSG Study 'Herbicides and Military Operations' ", 1972, private circulation, 8 pp.

"Gas Warfare and the Geneva Protocol ", with Christopher Leman, July 1972, private circulation, 6 pp.

"An Improved Analysis for Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxins ", with Robert Baughman, Advances in Chemistry Series, 1973, Number 120, pp 92- 104.

"Memo on Chlorodioxins Present in Fish from South Vietnam ", with Robert W. Baughman, 30 August 1973, private circulation, 4 pp.

"An Analytical Method for Detecting TCDD (Dioxin): Levels of TCDD in Samples from Vietnam ", with Robert Baughman, Environmental Health Perspectives, September 1973, Vol. 5, pp 27-35. [DHEW Publication No. (NIH) 74-218] Statement at hearings: U.S. Chemical Warfare Policy, Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, 1974, pp 55-58. (GPO 33-749)

"Review of the Preliminary Dioxin Implementation Plan of the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs, Criteria and Evaluation Division ", with Robert W. Baughman, submitted to EPA, October 1974, 9 pp.

"What Policy for Nerve Gas? ", Arms Control Today, April 1975, pp 1-2. Statement at hearings: Biological Testing Involving Human Subje c ts by the Department of Defense, 1977, Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research, Committee on Human Resources, U.S. Senate 1977, pp. 271-281. (GPO 87-857 O) Introduction and participation in Chemical Weapons and Chemical Arms Control, ed. Matthew Meselson, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, New York, 1978. (ISBN 0-87003-010-8).

"TCDD Analysis in Environmental Samples ", Draft Final Report, Environmental Protection Agency, Contract No. 68-01-1951, 10 January 1978, 28 pp.

"The Evaluation of Possible Health Hazards from TCDD in the Environment ", with Patrick O'Keefe and Robert Baughman, Symposium on the Use of Herbicides in Forestry, Arlington, Virginia, 21-22 February 1978, pp 91-94. (GPO 001-000-03842-7)

"Neutral Cleanup Procedure for 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin Residues in Bovine Fat and Milk ", with Patrick O'Keefe and Robert Baughman, J. Assoc. Official Analytical Chemists, May 1978, Vol. 61, pp 621-626.

"Analysis of TCDD in Human Milk Samples ", with P. O'Keefe, Preliminary Report, NIEHS Purchase Order No. (BPA) PR-497947-8, 11 July 1978.

"Measuring TCDD Residues in Beef Fat Samples ", with P. O'Keefe, Final Report, EPA Purchase Order No. WA-7-1938-J, September 1978.

"What Policy for Nerve Gas? ", in Negotiating Security -- an Arms Control Reader, eds. W.H. Kincade and J.D. Porro, Carnegie Endowment, New York, 1979.

"Prehearing Statement ", FIFRA Docket No 295, Environmental Protection Agency before the Administrator, 1980, 4 pp.

"Chemical Warfare and Chemical Disarmament ", with Julian Perry Robinson, Scientific American, April 1980, Vol. 242, pp 38-47. Statement at hearing: Strategic Implications of Chemical and Biological Warfare, Subcommittees on International Security and Scientific Affairs and Asian and Pacific Affairs, Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. House of Representatives, 24 April 1980, pp 26-29. (GPO 63-299 O) Memorandum to Files Regarding Sverdlovsk, 30 April 1980, private circulation, 7 pp.

"Direct Testimony of Dr. Matthew Meselson ", EPA Exhibit No. 584, FIFRA Docket Nos. 415, et al., United States Environmental Protection Agency before the Administrator, 18 June 1980, 19 pp.

"Chemical Weapons Threaten Civilians More Than Soldiers ", Interview, U.S. News & World Report, 3 November 1980, pp 45-46.

"Before We Spend Billions on Chemical Weapons ", with Steven M. Meyer, letter to The New York Times, 12 November 1980, p A30.

"Comments on the Defense Science Board (DSB) Chemical Warfare Panel Report ", (sanitized version), 8 January 1981, private circulation, 7 pp. Reprinted in Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1983, part 7, Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate, 1982, pp 5061-5065. (GPO 93-841 O) Statement at hearing: Yellow Rain, Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, 10 November 1981, pp 29-34. Statement at hearings: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for the Fiscal Year 1983, part 7, Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate, 1982, pp 5055-5065. (GPO 93 841 O)

"A Roundtable: Binary Chemical Weapons ", The New York Times, Sunday, 2 May 1982. Statement at hearings: Binary Chemical Weapons, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate, 1983, pp 34-40, 54-68. (GPO 93-757 O) Tabulated data on the environmental and biomedical samples from Southeast Asia and Afghanistan that have been analyzed for trichothecenes. With J. P. Perry Robinson. Presentation at the Conference on 'Yellow Rain', American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, 15-16 April 1983. Revised 2 September 1983, 13 pp.

"Yellow Rain: Findings And Assessments ", with Carl Kaysen and Stuart Schwartzstein, 15-16 April 1983, Summary of Conference on 'Yellow Rain', American Academy of Arts and Sciences, private circulation, 7 pp.

"Comparison of Yellow Rain and Bee Excrement ", with P. S. Ashton, J. W. Nowicke, J. P. Robinson and T. D. Seeley, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Detroit, 31 May 1983, 4 pp.

"Origin of Yellow Rain ", with Peter S. Ashton, J.P. Robinson and Thomas D. Seeley, Science, 28 October 1983, Vol. 222, pp 366 and 368.

"Yellow Rain: A Palynological Analysis ", with Joan Nowicke, Nature, 17 May 1984, Vol. 309, pp 205-206.

"Issues Regarding Production of New Chemical Weapons ", 15 May 1985, private circulation, 8 pp.

"Chemical Warfare Evidence Unconvincing ", with Peter S. Ashton, Joan W. Nowicke, J.P. Perry Robinson and Thomas D. Seeley, Nature, Vol. 315, 23 May 1985, p 284.

"Yellow Rain ", with T.D. Seeley, J.W. Nowicke, J. Guillemin and P. Akratanakul, Scientific American, September 1985, Vol. 253, pp 128-137. Letter to the Editors, with T.D. Seeley, J.W. Nowicke, and J. Guillemin, Scientific American, January 1986, Vol. 254, p 10.

"Incident at Ban Sa Tong ", 25 April 1986, private circulation, 6pp.

"The Search for Yellow Rain ", Interview, Arms Control Today, September 1986, Vol. 16, pp 31-36.

"Discussions in Moscow Regarding Sverdlovsk Anthrax Outbreak ", 25 September 1986, private circulation, 7 pp.

"Mustard Gas, Bees and DNA ", Interview, Yale Scientific, Spring 1987, Vol. 61, pp 13-16.

"Yellow Rain: The Story Collapses ", with Julian Robinson and Jeanne Guillemin, Foreign Policy, Fall 1987, Number 68, pp 100-117.

"The Biological Weapons Convention and the Sverdlovsk Anthrax Outbreak of 1979 ", F.A.S. Public Interest Report, No. 7, September 1988, pp 1-6.

"Stopping the Proliferation of Chemical Weapons ", The Boston Sunday Globe, 8 January 1989, p 68. Introduction to Implementing a Global Chemical Weapons Convention, ed. Eric H. Arnett, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 16 January 1989, pp 1-2.

"Israel and Poison Gas ", 9 April 1989, private circulation, 1 p. Statement at hearings: Chemical and Biological Weapons Threat: the Urgent Need for Remedies, Committee on Foreign Relations, U. S. Senate, 9 May 1989, pp 128-134. (GPO 98-420) Statement at hearings: 'Germ Wars'--Biological Weapons Proliferation and the New Genetics, Committee on Governmental Affairs and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, U.S. Senate, 17 May 1989, (in press).

"Prospects for a Chemical Weapons Disarmament Treaty ", in Challenges for the 1990s for Arms Control and International Security, National Academy Press, Washington DC, 1989, pp 57-63. ISBN 0- 309-04084-1

"Prevention of Biological and Chemical Warfare ", in The Challenge of an Open World: Essays Dedicated to Niels Bohr, eds. Niels Barfoed, Thomas Bredsdorff, Leif Christensen and Ove Nathan, Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1989, pp 57-63. ISBN 87-16-10382-3

"We Can End the Threat of Poison Gas Now ", Newsday, 15 December 1989, p 85.

"Chemical and Biological Weapons ", with Julian Perry Robinson, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th Edition, 1990, Vol. 29, pp 80-581. Statement at hearings: The Biological Weapons Act of 1989, Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, 1 May 1990.

"Chemical Weapons and Anti-Chemical Protection ", paper presented at the conference Toward a Universal Chemical Weapons Convention, Ma'in, Jordan, 7 May 1990, private circulation, 10 pp.

"Yellow Rain in Southeast Asia: The Story Collapses ", with Julian Robinson and Jeanne Guillemin, in Preventing a Biological Arms Race, ed. Susan Wright, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990, pp 220-238. ISBN 0-262-23148-4

"Verification of Biological and Toxin Weapons Disarmament ", with Martin Kaplan and Mark A. Mokulsky, in Verification - Monitoring Disarmament, Pugwash Study on Verification Issues, eds. F. Calogero, M. Goldberger and S. Kapitza, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1990, pp 149-164.

"Implications of the Kuwaiti Crisis for Chemical Weapons Proliferation and Arms Control ", Chemical Weapons and Security in the Middle East: Proceedings from a Congressional Briefing, ed. Eric H. Arnett, American Association for the Advancement of Science Program on Science and International Security, Washington, DC, 1990, pp 15-19. Review of The Challenge of Chemical Weapons: An American Perspective by Victor A. Utgoff, Nature, Vol. 348, 13 December 1990.

"Armi Chimiche e Misure di Protezione ", Giano, Richerche Per La Pace, 1990, No. 6, pp 110-122.

"The Science and Politics of Chemical Warfare ", Interview, Harvard/Radcliffe Science Review, Winter 1991, pp 8-14.

"War with Iraq Could Unleash Chemical and Biological Weapons, But One U.S. Expert Sees No Cause For Panic ", Interview, People Magazine, 21 January 1991, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp 53-4.

"Chemical, Biological Weapons are Quickly Becoming Anachronisms of War ", Interview, Harvard University Gazette, 8 March 1991, Vol. LXXXVI, pp 5-6.

"Measures for Consideration at the Third Biological Weapons Review Conference ", 11 March 1991, private circulation, 5 pp.

"The Role of Chemical Defense in Chemical Warfare, Chemical Deterrence, and Chemical Disarmament " (Adapted from the Keynote Address to the Sixth Annual Scientific Conference on Chemical Defense Research, U.S. Army Chemical Research, Development and Engineering Center, Edgewood Area, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 13-16 November 1990), Chemical Weapons Convention Bulletin, No. 11, March 1991, pp 17-19.

"The Myth of Chemical Superweapons ", The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 1991, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp 12-15.

"Verification of Biological and Toxin Weapons Disarmament ", Science and Global Security, Boulder, Colorado, 1991, Vol. 2, pp 235-252.

"Implementing the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972 ", UNIDIR Newsletter, June 1991, pp 10-13.

"The Role of Chemical Defense in Chemical Warfare, Chemical Deterrence, and Chemical Disarmament ", August 1991, private circulation,13 pp.

"Chemical and Biological Weapons: Developments in the Kuwait Crisis and in Arms Control ", with Elisa Harris and W. Seth Carus, Critical Choices, eds. Eric H. Arnett, Elizabeth J. Kirk and W. Thomas Wander, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC, 1991, pp 129-149. ISBN 0-87168-395-4

"Iraqi CBW armament and the UN Special Commission ", with Julian Robinson, Chemical Weapons Convention Bulletin no 13, September 1991, pp 21-22.

"Editorial: No Gas ", with Julian Robinson, Chemical Weapons Convention Bulletin no 14, December 1991, p 1.

"Banning Non-Lethal Chemical Incapacitants in the Chemical Weapons Convention --- A Briefing Discussion with Dr. Matthew Meselson ", The Committee for National Security, Washington, DC, 20 February, 1992, 15 pp.

"What policy for disabling chemicals? ", with Julian Robinson, Chemical Weapons Convention Bulletin, no 15, March 1992, pp 4-5. Statement at hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Chemical Weapons Ban Negotiation Issues, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1 May, 1992, 44 pp.

"The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention: A Summary ", with Julian Robinson, 1993 Science and International Security Anthology, Trends and Implications for Arms Control, Proliferation and International Security in the Changing Global Environment, eds. Elizabeth J. Kirk, W. Thomas Wander and Brian D. Smith, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC, 1993, pp 11-15.

"The Role of Chemical Defence in Chemical Warfare, Chemical Deterrence, and Chemical Disarmament " in Antichemical Protection and the Chemical Weapons Convention, eds. P. Deshinger, M. Meselson, and J.P. Robinson, Harvard Sussex Program on CBW Armament and Arms Limitation, Occassional Paper No. 2, Washington, DC. 1993, pp 11- 15.

"Introduction, Overview, and Conclusions " in Antichemical Protection and the Chemical Weapons Convention, eds. P. Deshinger, M. Meselson, and J.P. Robinson, Harvard Sussex Program on CBW Armament and Arms Limitation, Occassional Paper No. 2, Washington, DC, 1993, pp 5-7.

"New Evidence on the 1979 Soviet Anthrax Epidemic ", The ASA Newsletter, 8 April 1993, Issue No. 35, p 1.

"Editorial: The Australia Group and the Chemical Weapons Convention ", with Julian Perry Robinson, Chemical Weapons Convention Bulletin no 21, September 1993, p 5.

"New Technologies and the Loophole in the Convention ", with Julian Robinson, Chemical Weapons Convention Bulletin, March 1994, Issue No. 23 pp 1-2. Statement at hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations on the Chemical Weapons Convention, United States Senate, 9 June, 1994, 6 pp.