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History Of Biowarfare
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World War 2
1936 Japanese scientist used scores of Chinese subjects to test the lethality of various disease agents including anthrax , cholera typhoid and plague. in active military campaigns several hundred thousand people mostly Chinese civilians fell victim. -
Medieval Siege
In an infamous cases of 1763 a fort pitt on the Pennsylvania frontier Gen Jeffery amherst. ordered that blankets and handkerchiefs from smallpox patients in the forts infirmary be given to delaware Indians at a space making parley. -
Cold War
At the end of 1969 President Richard Nixon terminated the offensive bio warfare program and ordered all stockpiled.weapons destroyed . U.S researchers switched their focus to defensive measures such as developing air-sniffing detectors The U.S and more than 100 nations signed the bio and toxin weapons convention. -
Soviet
In 1979 a rare outbreak of anthrax disease in the city of Sverdlovsk killed nearly 70 people the soviet government publicly blamed contaminated meat.but U.S intelligence sources suspected the outbreak was linked to secret weapons work at a nearby army lab. -
Iraqs Biowepons
War case fire in 1991 however Iraq had weaponized anthrax botulinum toxin and aflatoxin and had several other lethal agents in development . -
The Cults
In 1995 The apocalyptic religious sect aum Shinrikyo released sarin gas in a Tokyo subway killing 12 commuters and injuring thousands . the cults maniacal leader Shoko Asahara believed that he could recruit
