She Interviewed the People Behind Weapons That Officially Never Existed. Read the Sources Yourself.

Annie Jacobsen doesn't speculate. She gets the people who ran the programs on the record, then backs their words with declassified documents most of us never knew to ask for. We spent two hours on Biological War: what the reports actually say, where her sources disagree, and the one question she couldn't fully answer on tape. I'm not asking you to believe anything. I'm giving you the documents, the interviews, and the counterarguments, so you can decide.

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