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  2. Biological agent - Wikipedia

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    A culture of Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax. Biological agents, also known as biological weapons or bioweapons, are pathogens used as weapons. In addition to these living or replicating pathogens, toxins and biotoxins are also included among the bio-agents. More than 1,200 different kinds of potentially weaponizable bio ...

  3. Biological warfare - Wikipedia

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    Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi with the intent to kill, harm or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war. [1]

  4. List of bioterrorist incidents - Wikipedia

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    Committed with the use of biological agents The following criteria of violence or threat of violence fall outside of the definition of this article: Wartime (including a declared war ) or peacetime acts of violence committed by a nation state against another nation state regardless of legality or illegality and are carried out by properly ...

  5. United States biological weapons program - Wikipedia

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    In recent years certain critics have claimed the U.S. stance on biological warfare and the use of biological agents has differed from historical interpretations of the BWC. [78] For example, it is said that the U.S. now maintains that the Article I of the BWC (which explicitly bans bio-weapons), does not apply to "non-lethal" biological agents ...

  6. List of U.S. biological weapons topics - Wikipedia

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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

  7. Over and over again, the military has conducted dangerous ...

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    It was one of the first large-scale biological weapon trials that would be conducted under a "germ warfare testing program" that went on for 20 years, from 1949 to 1969.

  8. Category:Biological agents - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Biological agents" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  9. History of biological warfare - Wikipedia

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    According to the same 2008 report by the U.S. Congressional Research Service, "Developments in biotechnology, including genetic engineering, may produce a wide variety of live agents and toxins that are difficult to detect and counter; and new chemical warfare agents and mixtures of chemical weapons and biowarfare agents are being developed ...