Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi with...

1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)—international treaties outlawing biological warfare. Initial interest in any form of biological warfare came...

within biocontainment facilities throughout the world. The former US biological warfare program (1943–1969) categorized its weaponized anti-personnel bio-agents...

guided biological weapons was described in Byzantine written sources, such as Tactica of Emperor Leo VI the Wise in the chapter On Naval Warfare. There...

refer to large-scale weaponry of warfare-related technologies, such as biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear warfare. The first use of the term "weapon...

The Dorset Biological Warfare Experiments were a series of experiments conducted between 1953 and 1975 to determine the extent to which a single ship or...

claims. Until the end of World War II, Japan operated a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit called Unit 731 in Harbin (now...

Asymmetric warfare is the methods used in conflicts between belligerents of drastically different levels of military capability or size. Biological warfare, or...

refer to: Biological agent, an infectious disease or toxin that can be used in bioterrorism or biological warfare Biological process Biological relationship...

the Kamo Detachment: 198  and the Ishii Unit, was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army...

Biological warfare (BW)—also known as bacteriological warfare, or germ warfare—has had a presence in popular culture for over 100 years. Public interest...

history of biological warfare goes back more than six centuries to the Siege of Caffa in 1346 CE, international restrictions on biological warfare began only...

warfare (CW) involves using the toxic properties of chemical substances as weapons. This type of warfare is distinct from nuclear warfare, biological...

The U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories (USBWL) was a suite of research laboratories and pilot plant centers operating at Camp (later Fort) Detrick...

starting in 1943 he "assumed responsibility for all research into biological warfare sponsored by the Wehrmacht" and the SS. Although he was acquitted...

2010) Introduction to Biological Weapons – Federation of American Scientists Franz, et al., The U.S. Biological Warfare and Biological Defense Programs US...

the water. In following centuries, accusations and discussions of biological warfare were common. Well-documented accounts of incidents involving both...

conventional weapons, not chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons. The general purpose of conventional warfare is to weaken or destroy the opponent's...

director of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army. Ishii led the development and application of biological weapons at Unit 731...

naturally occurring or a human-modified form, in much the same way as in biological warfare. Further, modern agribusiness is vulnerable to anti-agricultural attacks...

Japan had used germ warfare in occupied China in the 1930s and 1940s. The court acknowledged the existence of Japan's biological warfare program but rejected...

Entomological warfare (EW) is a type of biological warfare that uses insects to interrupt supply lines by damaging crops, or to directly harm enemy combatants...

into Caffa as a form of attack, one of the first known instances of biological warfare. When spring arrived, the Italian merchants fled on their ships, unknowingly...

Biodefense, defense against biological warfare This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Biological defense. If an internal link...

and Biological Warfare". BBC History. Archived from the original on 11 August 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015. Fenn EA (March 2000). "Biological warfare in...

Engineering Trading. Strains of dual-use biological material from France also helped advance Iraq's biological warfare program. From the United States, the...

about this planned attack was previously unknown to historians of biological warfare until published in December 2015. Knights of Malta fought at the siege...

Operation Sea-Spray was a 1950 U.S. Navy secret biological warfare experiment in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed...

Chemical and Biological Warfare, Copernicus, ISBN 978-0-387-95076-1 Smart, Jeffery K., M.A. (1997). History of Biological and Chemical Warfare. Retrieved...

facilities—is still mostly undocumented. International restrictions on biological warfare began only with the June 1925 Geneva Protocol, which prohibits the...