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

Biological weapons program locations
  • Granite Peak Range
  • Edgewood Arsenal
  • Fort Detrick and the U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories
  • Fort Douglas, Utah

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

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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