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biological warfare

[¦bī·ə¦läj·ə·kəl ′wȯr‚fer]
(ordnance)
Abbreviated BW.
Employment of living microorganisms, toxic biological products, and plant growth regulators to produce death or injury in humans, animals, or plants.
Defense against such action.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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in August 2002, then-US undersecretary of state for arms control and international security John Bolton declared, "The United States believes that over a dozen countries are pursuing biological weapons." (75) The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) similarly estimates that 14 states maintain active biological weapons research programs: Algeria, China, Cuba, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Libya, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Sudan, Syria, and Taiwan.
Although the Soviets signed the BWC, Moscow secretly continued with its biological weapons program.
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He eventually wound up in the care of German intelligence officials to whom he continued to spin his tale of biological weapons. His plan succeeded partially because he had worked briefly at the plant outside Baghdad and his descriptions of it were mostly accurate.
When nations began developing biological weapons after World War I, the programs were considered an extension of chemical-weapons technology.
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EXPERTS are investigating whether a Ukrainian presidential candidate was poisoned by toxins normally found in biological weapons, medics revealed last night.
Bush said that Hussein possessed chemical and biological weapons, and long-range missiles, and was seeking a nuclear weapon.
And the leader of the House of Commons Peter Hain said he, and other Cabinet members, had seen proof that Saddam had chemical and biological weapons.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said the US would find banned nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. He added: "How can it be bogus when I can show you pictures of people that were gassed by Saddam Hussein?
A US military unit finds what they suspect is a mobile biological weapons laboratory outside a missile research and testing facility in the north of the country.
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