Antibiotics WEAKEN the immune system.
How do you get an entire planet taking the very thing - antibiotics - that will enable the previously released agent to cause the maximum harm, i.e., first WEAKEN the immune systems?
Simple. You scare them into it. ANTHRAX.
In any case, the appropriation bill which is said to have contained funding for the biological warfare research, H.R. 15090, was actually not introduced until December 3, 1969, some five months after the July hearing. It was approved by the House on December 8th, by the Senate on December 15th, and was signed into law by President Nixon on December 29th as Public Law 91-171. Careful scrutiny of the measure reveals no mention of $10 million (or any other figure) to create an invulnerable virus.
Do classified projects usually appear as line items in a publicly distrubited document?