Frederick R. Sidell, M.D., spent 31 years at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense. While with the government, Dr. Sidell saw hundreds of casualties from chemical warfare agents, wrote extensively on this topic in scientific and medical journals and books. In 1979 the Army Surgeon General sent him to Thailand to investigate the alleged use of chemical agents against the refugees Laos, and in March 1995 he was one of three physicians sent by the State Department to Tokyo to advise Japanese physicians on the management of nerve agent casualties after the nerve agent subway incident.William C. Patrick, III has 47-years experience in the field of Biological Warfare (BW); the first 21 years were devoted to the offensive aspects of BW (1951-1972); 14 years were devoted to the development of medical defense research programs to counter potential offensive BW of adversary nations; and since his retirement in 1986, Mr. Patrick has served as a consultant to the US Government as well as private organizations.

Thomas R. Dashiell Extensive Research and Development (R&D) management experience. Over thirty-eight years of hands-on technical and managerial experience in R&D involving major programs of increasing scope and responsibility. Mr. Dashiell was a biologist and chemical engineer born in Riverton, Maryland, graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1962. Arms expert, biologist Thomas Dashiell dies at seventy.