INSECTICIDE PRODUCTION OPENS NEW POSSIBILITIES .
In a press conference May 26, British scientists employed in research on bacteriological war made the optimistic forecast that they will be able to synthesize the poison of botulism. It is a thousand times more toxic than the deadliest: known gas.
The great advantage of. biological and chemical arms over nucléar weapons, directors of the research center stressed, is that. they can be produced by any country having sufficient industrial and scientific resources to manufacture an effective insecticide,
The British specialists in this type of weaponry ‘have already delivered to the armed forces a nerve gas designed to paralyze and weaken an enemy. Another gas knocks out the will to fight. A chem~ ical substance a. thousand times more powerful than the one now in production is projected,
The "peaceful" and "defensive" aims of research,in this field” were stressed by the directors, They said that it was certain. most British scientists would refuse to work on deadly gases and bacteriological products if any other aims were projected,
'