Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi with...
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1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)—international treaties outlawing biological warfare. Initial interest in any form of biological warfare came...
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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...
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within biocontainment facilities throughout the world. The former US biological warfare program (1943–1969) categorized its weaponized anti-personnel bio-agents...
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Weapon of mass destruction (redirect from Nuclear, biological and chemical warfare)
refer to large-scale weaponry of warfare-related technologies, such as biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear warfare. The first use of the term "weapon...
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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...
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refer to: Biological agent, an infectious disease or toxin that can be used in bioterrorism or biological warfare Biological process Biological relationship...
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War (redirect from Chemical and Biological Warfare)
Asymmetric warfare is the methods used in conflicts between belligerents of drastically different levels of military capability or size. Biological warfare, or...
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Unit 731 (category Biological warfare facilities)
the Kamo Detachment: 198 and the Ishii Unit, was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army...
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The U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories (USBWL) was a suite of research laboratories and pilot plant centers operating at Camp (later Fort) Detrick...
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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...
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warfare (CW) involves using the toxic properties of chemical substances as weapons. This type of warfare is distinct from nuclear warfare, biological...
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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...
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Biological warfare (BW)—also known as bacteriological warfare, or germ warfare—has had a presence in popular culture for over 100 years. Public interest...
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starting in 1943 he "assumed responsibility for all research into biological warfare sponsored by the Wehrmacht" and the SS. Although he was acquitted...
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Shirō Ishii (category People related to biological warfare)
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...
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Japan and weapons of mass destruction (redirect from Japanese biological warfare)
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...
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Population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas (redirect from Biological warfare against indigenous peoples of the Americas)
the water. In following centuries, accusations and discussions of biological warfare were common. Well-documented accounts of incidents involving both...
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Unethical human experimentation in the United States (redirect from Chemical warfare experiments in the United States)
US Army Activities in the US Biological Warfare Program, 1977 Congressional report Christopher et al., "Biological warfare. A historical perspective",...
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conventional weapons, not chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons. The general purpose of conventional warfare is to weaken or destroy the opponent's...
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Bioterrorism (redirect from Biological terrorism)
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...
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Biodefense, defense against biological warfare This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Biological defense. If an internal link...
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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...
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Operation Sea-Spray (category United States biological weapons program)
Operation Sea-Spray was a 1950 U.S. Navy secret biological warfare experiment in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed...
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Engineering Trading. Strains of dual-use biological material from France also helped advance Iraq's biological warfare program. From the United States, the...
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Smallpox (section Biological warfare)
and Biological Warfare". BBC History. Archived from the original on 11 August 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015. Fenn EA (March 2000). "Biological warfare in...
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Bubonic plague (section Biological warfare)
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...
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Materials MASINT (section Biological warfare detection)
vehicle. One of the challenges of preventing the proliferation of biological warfare capability is verifying that a legitimate bioengineering facility...
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present-day name. In late 1968 the Deseret Test Center conducted a biological warfare experiment at Yeehaw Junction. The experiment was part of Project...
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Unit Ei 1644 (category Biological warfare facilities)
Nanking Detachment, or simply Unit Ei, was a Japanese laboratory and biological warfare facility under control of the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification...
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