Science, Secrecy, and the Smithsonian: The Strange History of the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program

by Ed Regis

This is the story of how the Smithsonian Institute became intertwined in a secret biological warfare project.

During the 1960s, the Smithsonian Institution undertook a large-scale biological survey of a group of uninhabited tropical islands in the Pacific. It was one of the largest and most sweeping biological survey programs of all time, a six-year-long enterprise during which Smithsonian personnel banded 1.8 million birds,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197520332
• ISBN13: 9780197520338
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"