» 报告:60年代美国在冲绳测试生物武器
    
    Tokyo (AFP) - The US army conducted fieldexperiments of biological weapons, which could harm rice cropping, in theJapanese island of Okinawa in the early 1960s, a press report said Sunday.
    
    东京(法新社)- 据周日的一篇新闻导报称，美军于20世纪60年代早期在日本的冲绳进行一种危害水稻种植的生物武器实验。
    
    The same experiments were also conducted on the US mainland and in Taiwan,Kyodo news agency reported, citing US military documents it said it hadobtained.
    
    共同社援引其入手的美军文件称，同样的实验也在美国本土和台湾测试过。
    
    The US is "believed to have had China and Southeast Asia in mind indeveloping such crop-harming agents", the report stated.
    
    文章中提到美国”据信是针对中国和东南亚开发的这种对水稻有害的药剂”。
    
    In the tests conducted at least a dozen times between 1961 and 1962, rice blastfungus was released over rice fields and data was collected on how it affectedrice production, Kyodo said, citing the documents.
    
    共同社援引文件称，1961至1962年间这类实验进行过多次，美军在稻田里释放这种水稻瘟疫病菌，然后收集数据研究其效果。
    
    Rice blast disease causes lesions to form on the plant, threatening the crop.
    
    这种水稻瘟疫使作物发生病变，对其造成威胁。
    
    The fungus, which is known to occur in 85 countries, is estimated to destroyenough rice to feed 60 million people each year.
    
    这种真菌在85个国家内有过发生记录，估算每年摧毁足够6000万人吃的水稻。
    
    The US government decided in 1969 to discard all biological weapons in itspossession, Kyodo said. In 1975, an international convention against productionand possession of biological weapons came into force.
    
    共同社称，美国政府于1969年决定销毁其持有的全部生物武器，在1975年，一项旨在反对制造和保有生物武器的国际公约开始生效。
    
    Okinawa was under post-World War II US rule until 1972.
    
    二战后直到1972年，冲绳一直处于美国的管辖
    
    The US government has previously disclosed information about chemical andbiological warfare tests at sea and on land in such places as Puerto Rico,Hawaii and Utah.
    
    不久前，美国政府公开了其在波多黎各、夏威夷和犹他州的生化武器海陆实验的有关信息。
    
    The obtained documents mention test sites including Nago and Shuri, both inOkinawa, but it is not known whether the experiments were conducted within thepremises of US bases there, Kyodo said.
    
    共同社称，其获取的文件中提及的测试地点还包括冲绳的Nago和Shuri两地，但是并不确定实验是否在美军的基地内进行的。
    
    In the field tests, the army "used a midget duster to release inoculumalongside fields in Okinawa and Taiwan," measuring dosages at differentdistances and the effect on crop production, the documents said.
    
    文件称，在实验中美军”在冲绳和台湾的田间，使用小型喷粉器来释放(带有病菌的)接种体”，测试在不同距离下同剂量对作物种植的效果。
    
    A separate document said, "Field tests for stem rust of wheat and riceblast disease were begun at several sites in the (US) midwest and south and inOkinawa with partial success in the accumulation of useful data,"according to Kyodo.
    
    援引共同社的报道，在另一份文件中提及，”小麦茎锈病和稻瘟病的实验曾在美国中西和南部数个州开展过，在冲绳获得了部分成功，积累了有价值的数据”