List of U.S. biological weapons topics

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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.

## Contents

* 1 Agencies and organizations
* 1.1 Military and government agencies and schools
* 1.2 Biological weapons program locations
* 2 Treaties, laws and policies
* 3 Weapons
* 3.1 Canceled weapons
* 3.2 Other weapons
* 3.3 Weaponized biological agents
* 3.4 Researched biological agents
* 4 Operations and exercises
* 5 Biological attacks
* 6 See also
* 7 References

## 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

* United States biological weapons program

* Dugway Proving Ground

* Granite Peak Range

* Edgewood Arsenal
* Fort Detrick and the U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories

* Building 470
* One-Million-Liter Test Sphere

* Fort Douglas, Utah

* Deseret Test Center

* 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

* 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. 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

* anthrax, caused by Bacillus anthracis

* Ames strain

* tularemia, caused by Francisella tularensis
* brucellosis, caused by Brucella suis
* Q-fever, caused by Coxiella burnetii
* botulism
* 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 (technically a chemical weapon)
* 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

* List of U.S. chemical weapons topics
* United States and weapons of mass destruction

## 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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