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Subject: Destruction of Biological Warfare Storage Bunkers


        CCSG                                                     14 Dec 90

        Memorandum for Chief, J3, CENTCOM, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

        Memorandum from               CENTCOM Surgeon's Office, Riyadh, Saudi
        Arabi a

        SUBJECT:  Destruction of Biological Warfare Storage Bunkers

        1.  A point paper on the above subject has been requested and the
        question posed to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute 0f
        Infectiouts Diseases (USAMRIID).

        2.  USAMR1ID was quick to point out that the issue was being worked
        in detail by a consorti~tm that incl~tdes the De+ense Intelligence
        ~gency and that there would soon be recommendations available +rom
        that consortium.  The data that +ollows is but a portion 0+ the
        i n+ ormati on being considered.

            Certain assumptions were made in the calculations.

              a. Storage 0+ ~nthrax is in +our bunkers.


              c. The numbtereo+ spores+ in each can times the numLer 0+ can _
        per bunker times     number        bunkers     is 9.6x1c~c).
              d. The lethal dose 507. (LD5O) +or humans is 8000.


        5.  Recommendations +rom US~MRIID include the +01 lowing:

              a.  Destruction o+ ~nthrax spores requires that they be
-~      E~'po~ed to hL~t (ffi?( to `.0 seconds at 400 degree Centigrade) or
        chemical o>'idi~ing agents     (chlorine solutions)


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