Originally posted by mad scientist
Originally posted by sy.gunson
During July 1944 Heisenberg was visited in Berlin by Maj Bernd von Brauchitisch, Goering’s adjutant, with a report that the German legation in Lisbon had learned of an American threat to drop an Atomic Bomb on Dresden during the next six weeks if germany did not sue for peace in some way before then. source: Irving, David. Virus House. p.283
Irving is a known revisionist and Holocaust denier. As such any views he has are very suspect. So this supposed threat was completely useless not only did the Allies not have a nuclear weapon, making such a threat and not carrying through with it, would only embolden the Germans as it showed the Allies did not have a weapon. The threat makes no sense and there is no corroboration for it.
Irving may have drawn wrong conclusions from his research, but his data is meticulously researched.
Irving is not the only source that Churchill threatened an anthrax attack on germany. I have cited other sources for the claim therefore you are merely practising your usual form of sneering dismissal without listening to the facts.
The project was known under the code name Operation Vegitarian Details of the wartime secret operation are contained in a series of War Office files (WO 188) at the Public Record Office in KEW.
British "Operation Vegetarian", had been in development since 1942, and was ready to go. Britain manufactured five million anthrax laced "cattle cakes" and planned to drop them on Germany in 1944. The aim of Churchill's "Operation Vegetarian" was to wipe out the German beef and dairy herds and then see the bacterium spread to the human population.
Vegetarian was led by Dr. Paul Fildes, director of the biology department at Porton Down near Salisbury in Wiltshire. The British work on anthrax, or "N" as it was code-named, in the weapon form led (1943) to the design of an "N" bomb suitable for mass production by we Americans. Each particular set of munitions weighed 1.8 kilograms (4 pounds). 106 of these "bomblets" were to be packed into a 225 kilogram (500 pound) cluster-bomb canister and dropped over Nazi population and dairy production centers. There was a second delivery method which would have been even more effective. That was to separate the small "bomblets" out of the cluster bomb, and disperse them out of the flare tubes as the planes returned from normal bombing runs at night. This would insure wide distribution of the cakes, and save on time/weight, and possible discovery by the Nazis as an intentional attack.
