List of U.S. biological weapons topics

List of U.S. biological weapons topics

The United States had a biological weapons program from 1943 until 1969. Today, the nation is a member of the Biological Weapons Convention and has renounced biological warfare.

Contents

Agencies and organizations

Military and government agencies and schools

Biological weapons program locations

  • United States biological weapons program
  • Granite Peak Range
  • Edgewood Arsenal
  • Fort Detrick and the U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories
  • Building 101
  • Building 257

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. WWII-era biological bomb

Other weapons

  • 20 mm particulate projectile
  • E120 bomblet
  • E133 bomb, 750 lb. cluster bomb, held 544 bomblets
  • E14 munition, sub-muntion 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

Exercises, incidents and accidents

Biological attacks

Operations and exercises

See also

References


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