The United States biological weapons program officially began in spring 1943 on orders from U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Research continued following...

sophisticated biological weapons program, thereby violating its obligations as a party to the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972. The Soviet program began...

global norm against biological weapons. This norm is reflected in the treaty's preamble, which states that the use of biological weapons would be "repugnant...

The Chinese biological weapons program is a biological weapons program reported to have been active in the 1980s, and suspected by some governments and...

Biological weapons are pathogens used as weapons. In addition to these living or replicating pathogens, toxins and biotoxins are also included among the...

The United States Biological Defense Program—in recent years also called the National Biodefense Strategy—refers to the collective effort by all levels...

extensive biological weapons (BW) program in Iraq in the early 1980s, despite having signed (but not ratified until 1991) the Biological Weapons Convention...

biological weapon. As a biological weapon, anthrax has been used in biowarfare and bioterrorism since 1914. However, in 1975 the Biological Weapons Convention...

and agent production and purification for the U.S. offensive biological warfare program. The laboratories and their projects were discontinued in 1969...

The United States is known to have possessed three types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. The U.S. is the only...

The United States was the first country to manufacture nuclear weapons and is the only country to have used them in combat, with the bombings of Hiroshima...

The United States chemical weapons program began in 1917 during World War I with the creation of the U.S. Army's Gas Service Section and ended 73 years...

types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear weapons, biological weapons, and chemical weapons. It is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized...

Allegations that the United States military used biological weapons in the Korean War (June 1950 – July 1953) were raised by the governments of the People's...

Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) is a United States Army facility established in 1942 to test biological and chemical weapons, located about 85 miles (137 km)...

announced the end of the U.S. offensive biological weapons program and reaffirmed a no-first-use policy for chemical weapons. The statement excluded toxins, herbicides...

The United States had an offensive biological weapons program from 1943 until 1969. Today, the nation is a member of the Biological Weapons Convention...

humans, animals or plants as an act of war. Biological weapons (often termed "bio-weapons", "biological threat agents", or "bio-agents") are living organisms...

access to nuclear weapons (NPRP), chemical weapons (CPRP), and biological weapons (BPRP). The program was first instituted for nuclear weapons during the Cold...

countermeasures against biological warfare. It is located on Fort Detrick, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., and is a subordinate lab of the United States Army Medical...

unethical experiments include the exposure of humans to chemical and biological weapons (including infections with deadly or debilitating diseases), human...

employed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from 1962 to 1991, when it destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile and halted its biological and nuclear weapon programs...

September 2022. Bentley, Michelle. "The US has a history of testing biological weapons on the public – were infected ticks used too?". The Conversation....

principles. Human experimentation in the United States US Senate Report on chemical weapons Project SHAD US Biological Weapon Testing "Operation Whitecoat". PBS...

Soviet Union appeared imminent, the United States and their NATO allies grew concerned of the risk of nuclear weapons held in the Soviet republics falling...

ALASTAIR. “A Magic Sword or a Big Itch: An Historical Look at the United States Biological Weapons Programme.” Medicine, Conflict and Survival 15, no. 3 (1999):...

threat of biological weapons. Declassified documents later revealed that the United States was both aware of Iraq's use of chemical weapons, and also...

of biological weapons for use against livestock was conducted at the site, ending in 1969 when President Nixon declared an end to the United States' offensive...

declassified U.S. Army report in 1981. Human experimentation in the United States Operation Big Buzz Operation Big Itch Operation Drop Kick Rose, William...

into weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons under the apartheid government. South Africa’s nuclear weapons doctrine...