“INDIVIDUALS will be mentally alert, mentally and emotionally stable, trustworthy, physically competent, and free of unstable medical conditions,” reads the US army regulation covering scientists working on lethal bacteria, viruses and toxins. It’s hard to reconcile this description with the picture that emerges of the late Bruce Ivins, accused of killing five people in the anthrax attacks of October 2001.
suggest that Ivins, who worked on anthrax vaccines at the ) at Fort Detrick, Maryland, had a troubled psychiatric history long before his descent into suicide…
