A reader writes with regard to my item about the depraved attempt to develop ethnically specific bioweapons that ‘it has been tried before… The South African Chemical and Biowarfare

program attempted to create “an infertility toxin to

secretly sterilize the black population” ‘. Did this inspire Israeli biowarfare dreams? Not outlandish, considering that ‘South Africa and Israel cooperated

on their nuclear weapons programs in the 60s and 70s.’ [thank you, K.]