• The United States biological weapons program officially began in spring 1943 on orders from U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Research continued following...
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    sophisticated biological weapons program, thereby violating its obligations as a party to the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972. The Soviet program began...
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  • The Chinese biological weapons program is a biological weapons program reported to have been active in the 1980s, and suspected by some governments and...
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    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...
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    Biological agents, also known as biological weapons, are pathogens used as weapons. In addition to these living or replicating pathogens, toxins and biotoxins...
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    extensive biological weapons (BW) program in Iraq in the early 1980s, despite having signed (but not ratified until 1991) the Biological Weapons Convention...
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  • The United States Biological Defense Program—in recent years also called the National Biodefense Strategy—refers to the collective effort by all levels...
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  • biological weapon. As a biological weapon, anthrax has been used in biowarfare and bioterrorism since 1914. However, in 1975 the Biological Weapons Convention...
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    and agent production and purification for the U.S. offensive biological warfare program. The laboratories and their projects were discontinued in 1969...
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  • 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...
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    The United States is known to have possessed three types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. As the country that...
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    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...
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    types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear weapons, biological weapons, and chemical weapons. It is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized...
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    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)...
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  • 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...
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    humans, animals or plants as an act of war. Biological weapons (often termed "bio-weapons", "biological threat agents", or "bio-agents") are living organisms...
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    weapons, as well as any weapon delivery systems for the deployment of biological weapons. It also forbade the exchange between people of biological weapons...
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    unethical experiments include the exposure of humans to chemical and biological weapons (including infections with deadly or debilitating diseases), human...
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  • access to nuclear weapons (NPRP), chemical weapons (CPRP), and biological weapons (BPRP). The program was first instituted for nuclear weapons during the Cold...
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  • The United States had an offensive biological weapons program from 1943 until 1969. Today, the nation is a member of the Biological Weapons Convention...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • Operation Sea-Spray (category United States biological weapons program)
    September 2022. Bentley, Michelle. "The US has a history of testing biological weapons on the public – were infected ticks used too?". The Conversation....
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    employed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from 1962 to 1991, after which it destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile and halted its biological and nuclear...
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    into weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons under the apartheid government. South Africa’s nuclear weapons doctrine...
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  • disavow biological weapons. United States biological weapons program United Kingdom and weapons of mass destruction § Biological weapons Soviet biological weapons...
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    nuclear weapon program. Since World War II, the United States military based nuclear and chemical weapons and field tested biological anti-crop weapons in...
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    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...
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    Fort Detrick (category United States biological weapons program)
    a United States Army Futures Command installation located in Frederick, Maryland. Fort Detrick was the center of the U.S. biological weapons program from...
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    miniaturize any weapon for effective use in combat. Currently, there is no evidence of Taiwan possessing any chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons. However...
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