Bacteriological weapon

Bioterrorism A Potential Weapon for Terrorist Attacks Through Food and Water Contamination Evolution of Our Understanding of the Use of Chemical and Bacteriological Weapons... 

Typical of their stated intent to use chemical and biological weapons is a statement by a senior Soviet admiral, in 1958. A future war will be distinguished from all past wars in connection with the mass employment of military air force devices, rockets, weapons, and various means of destruction such as atomic, hydrogen, chemical, and bacteriological weapons. ... 

As the deadline for the destruction of biological weapons approached, attention turned to the Soviet Union. Would a similar display take place there The Russians merely issued a statement announcing that the Soviet Union does not possess any bacteriological weapons. Ignoring the question of whether they had ever... 

Materials on the Trial of former Servicemen of the Japanese Army Charged with Manufacturing and Employing Bacteriological Weapons (Moscow, 1950). An account is also given in Hersh, op. cit., pp. 13—18. 

In 1941, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson asked the National Academy of Sciences to evaluate the feasibility of biological warfare. The academy concluded that biological warfare was feasible and recommended that steps be taken to reduce U.S. vulnerability and also to conduct research to explore the offensive potential of bacteriological weapons. 

I have been gathering information on bacteriological weapons (BW) for several years. Out of all the means of mass destruction, this kind can be considered as the most mysterious.4(pl5)... 

Geneva Protocol of 1925. A multilateral agreement that prohibits the use of poisonous gases and bacteriological weapons in war. It was opened for signature in 1925 and was ratified by the United States in 1975. 

In October 1979 a British magazine. Now , published what it described as an exclusive report claiming that, Hundreds of people are reported to have died and thousands to have suffered serious injury as a result of an accident which took place this summer in a factory involved in the production of bacteriological weapons in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk . ... 

Because toxins lack the ability to reproduce, they would be more akin to chemical weapons. It is possible to envisage that their use could be selective and controlled in a way which would not be possible with bacteriological weapons. Nonetheless, their possession and use are banned by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. 

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