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The MDMA Cook Who Tried To Commit Genocide

Behind the Bastards

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We've Got to Do Something Awkward About It

In 1981, the South African government orders Brigitte Erre, Walter Bassen, a young military cardiologist to travel abroad and learn about chemical and biological weapons programs. Project Coast grew into one of the most ambitious and sinister weapons projects in human history. Its goals, if not its ends, may have even eclipsed the Manhattan Project in horrifying scale.

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