Project Coast was a 1980s top-secret chemical and biological weapons (CBW) program instituted by the apartheid-era government of South Africa. Project Coast was the successor to a limited postwar CBW program, which mainly produced the lethal agents CX powder and mustard gas, as well as non-lethal tear gas for riot control purposes.[1] The program was headed by the cardiologist Wouter Basson, who was also the personal physician of South African Prime Minister P. W. Botha.[2]
- ^ Gould, Chandré (2006) South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare programme 1981–1995, PhD thesis. Rhodes University.
- ^ Marbot, Olivier (5 February 2021). "South Africa: 'Dr Death' discovered to still be practising medicine". The Africa Report. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
The young personal physician to President Botha, Basson, a lieutenant colonel who joined the army in 1979, was a competent, extremely motivated volunteer.