List of U.S. biological weapons topics
The United States had an offensive biological weapons program from 1943 until 1969. Today, the nation is a member of the Biological Weapons Convention and has renounced biological warfare.
Agencies and organizations
Military and government agencies and schools
- United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories (USBWL)
- United States Army Chemical Corps
- War Bureau of Consultants
- War Research Service
Biological weapons program locations
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- Granite Peak Range
- Edgewood Arsenal
- Fort Detrick and the U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories
- Fort Douglas, Utah
- Building 101
- Building 257
- Horn Island Testing Station
- Pine Bluff Arsenal
- Rocky Mountain Arsenal
- Vigo Ordnance Plant
Treaties, laws and policies
- Biological Weapons Convention
- Geneva Protocol
- Statement on Chemical and Biological Defense Policies and Programs
Weapons
Canceled weapons
- E77 balloon bomb
- E99 bomblet
- Flettner rotor, an experimental biological cluster bomb sub-munition
- Project St. Jo
- SPD Mk I, 4 lb. WWII-era biological bomb
Other weapons
- 20 mm particulate projectile
- E120 bomblet
- E133 bomb, 750 lb. cluster bomb, held 544 bomblets
- E14 munition, sub-muntion for E86 cluster bomb
- E23 munition, sub-munition for E77 cluster bomb
- E48 particulate bomb (E48R2), sub-munition for E96 cluster
- E61 bomb (E61R4)
- E86 cluster bomb
- E95 bomblet
- E96 cluster bomb
- M114 bomb, 4 lb. biological anti-personnel bomb, sub-munition for the M33 cluster bomb
- M115 bomb, a 500 lb. anti-crop bomb
- M143 bomblet
- M33 cluster bomb
- SUU-24/A dispenser
Weaponized biological agents
- anthrax, caused by Bacillus anthracis
- tularemia, caused by Francisella tularensis
- brucellosis, caused by Brucella suis
- Q-fever, caused by Coxiella burnetii
- botulism, botulin toxin produced by Clostridium botulinum
- Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B (SEB), toxin produced by Staphylococcus aureus, used as an incapacitating agent
- Stem rust, both wheat and rye stem rust, fungal anticrop agent
- Rice blast, fungal anticrop agent
Researched biological agents
- Argentinian hemorrhagic fever (AHF)
- Bird flu
- Bolivian hemorrhagic fever (BHF)
- Chikungunya virus (CHIKV)
- Dengue fever
- Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE)
- Hantavirus
- Lassa fever
- Late blight of potato
- glanders
- melioidosis
- Newcastle disease
- Plague
- Psittacosis
- Smallpox
- Ricin
- Rift Valley fever (RVF)
- Rinderpest
- Typhus
- Western equine encephalitis (WEE)
- Yellow fever
Operations and exercises
- Edgewood Arsenal experiments
- Operation Big Buzz
- Operation Big Itch
- Operation Blue Skies
- Operation Dark Winter
- Operation Dew
- Operation Drop Kick
- Operation LAC
- Operation Magic Sword
- Operation May Day
- Operation Polka Dot
- Operation Top Off
- Operation Whitecoat
- Project 112
- Project Bacchus
- Project Clear Vision
- Project Jefferson
Biological attacks
- 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack
- 1989 California medfly attack
- 2001 anthrax attacks
- 2003 ricin letters
See also
References
- "Chemical and Biological Weapons: Possession and Programs Past and Present", James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury College, April 9, 2002, accessed November 12, 2008.
- "Biological Weapons", Federation of American Scientists, updated October 19, 1998, accessed November 12, 2008.
- Croddy, Eric C. and Hart, C. Perez-Armendariz J., Chemical and Biological Warfare, (Google Books), Springer, 2002, pp. 30–31, (ISBN 0387950761).
- Kirby, Reid. "The CB Battlefield Legacy: Understanding the Potential Problem of Clustered CB Weapons", Army Chemical Review, pp. 25–29, July–December 2006, accessed November 12, 2008.
- Kirby, Reid. "The Evolving Role of Biological Weapons", Army Chemical Review, pp. 22–26, July–December 2007, accessed November 12, 2008.
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