In Six-Legged Soldiers, Jeffrey A. Lockwood paints a brilliant
portrait of the many weirdly creative, truly frightening, and
ultimately powerful ways in which insects have been used as weapons
of war, terror, and torture. He concludes with a critical analysis
of today's defenses--and homeland security's dangerous
shortcomings--with respect to entomological attacks.
Beginning in prehistoric times and building toward a near and
disturbing future, the reader is taken on a journey of innovation
and depravity. Lockwood, an award-winning science writer, begins
with the use of "bee bombs" in the ancient world and explores the
role of insect-borne disease in changing the course of major
battles, from Napoleon's military campaigns to the trenches of
World War I. He explores the horrific programs of insect
weaponization during World War II: airplanes designed to drop
plague-infested fleas, facilities rearing tens of millions of
crop-devouring beetles, and prison camps where doctors tested
disease-carrying lice on inmates. The Cold War saw secret
government operations involving the mass release of specially
developed strains of mosquitoes on an unsuspecting American
public--along with the alleged use of disease-carrying and
crop-eating pests against North Korea and Cuba. Lockwood reveals
how easy it would be to use insects in warfare and terrorism today,
pointing to how domestic eco-terrorists in 1989 extorted government
officials and wreaked economic and political havoc by threatening
to release the notorious Medfly into California's crops.
A remarkable story of human ingenuity--and brutality--Six-Legged
Soldiers is the first comprehensive look at the use of insects as
weapons of war, from ancient times to the present day.
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