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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 and has renounced biological warfare.
Agencies and organizations
Military and government agencies and schools
Biological weapons program locations
- United States biological weapons program
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- Edgewood Arsenal
- Fort Detrick and the U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories
- Fort Terry/Plum Island Animal Disease Center
- Building 101
- Building 257
- Horn Island Testing Station
- Pine Bluff Arsenal
- Rocky Mountain Arsenal
- Vigo Ordnance Plant
Treaties, laws and policies
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. World War II-era biological bomb
Other weapons
- 20 mm particulate projectile
- E120 bomblet
- [50 lb. cluster bomb, held 544 bomblets
- E14 munition, sub-munition 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
Researched biological agents
Operations and exercises
Biological attacks
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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