Biological Warfare

By chrisyambao

  • Geneva Protocol Signed by 108 nations

    This was the first multilateral agreement that extended prohibition of chemical agents to biological agents.

  • Japanese carried out human experiments on prisoners

    The Japanese exposed many victims to plague, anthrax, and other agents just to try to develop and observe the certain diseases.

  • United States formed the War Research Service

    They investigated anthrax and botulinum toxin for use as weapons. On a side note, the British also tested anthrax bombs on an island.
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    United States researched various offensive biological weapons

    Released harmless organisms off coasts of US to show how weak American cities were to biological attacks.

  • Release of anthrax killed 66 people

    An accidental occurence happened when anthrax from a weapons facility in the USSR occured and killed 66 people.

  • People inentionally infected with Salmonella

    Salmonella is an agent that causes food poisoning, and 751 were infected by it by a cult intentionally contaminating salad bars with salmonella.

  • Iraq started using offensive biological weapons

    They started producing anthrax, botulinum toxin, and aflatoxin to start producing chemical and biological weapons.

  • Someone in Ohio attempted to get bubonic plague cultures through mail