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.

Military and government agencies and schools

 * United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories (USBWL)
 * United States Army Chemical Corps
 * War Bureau of Consultants
 * War Research Service

Biological weapons program locations

 * United States biological weapons program
 * Dugway Proving Ground
 * Granite Peak Range
 * Edgewood Arsenal
 * Fort Detrick and the U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories
 * Building 470
 * One-Million-Liter Test Sphere
 * Fort Douglas, Utah
 * Deseret Test Center
 * Fort Terry/Plum Island Animal Disease Center
 * Building 101
 * Building 257
 * Horn Island Testing Station
 * Pine Bluff Arsenal
 * Rocky Mountain Arsenal
 * Vigo Ordnance Plant

Treaties, laws and policies

 * Biological Weapons Convention
 * Geneva Protocol
 * Statement on Chemical and Biological Defense Policies and Programs

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

 * 20 mm particulate projectile
 * E120 bomblet
 * [50 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

 * anthrax, caused by Bacillus anthracis
 * Ames strain


 * tularemia, caused by Francisella tularensis
 * brucellosis, caused by Brucella suis
 * Q-fever, caused by Coxiella burnetii
 * botulism, botulin toxin produced by Clostridium botulinum
 * Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B (SEB), toxin produced by Staphylococcus aureus, used as an incapacitating agent
 * Stem rust, both wheat and rye stem rust, fungal anticrop agent
 * Rice blast, fungal anticrop agent

Researched biological agents

 * Argentinian hemorrhagic fever (AHF)
 * Bird flu
 * Bolivian hemorrhagic fever (BHF)
 * Chikungunya virus (CHIKV)
 * Dengue fever
 * Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE)
 * Hantavirus
 * Lassa fever
 * Late blight of potato
 * glanders
 * melioidosis
 * Newcastle disease
 * Plague
 * Psittacosis
 * Smallpox
 * Ricin
 * Rift Valley fever (RVF)
 * Rinderpest
 * Typhus
 * Western equine encephalitis (WEE)
 * Yellow fever

Operations and exercises

 * Edgewood Arsenal experiments
 * Operation Big Buzz
 * Operation Big Itch
 * Operation Blue Skies
 * Operation Dark Winter
 * Operation Dew
 * Operation Drop Kick
 * Operation LAC
 * Operation Magic Sword
 * Operation May Day
 * Operation Polka Dot
 * Operation Top Off
 * Operation Whitecoat
 * Project 112
 * Project Bacchus
 * Project Clear Vision
 * Project Jefferson

Biological attacks

 * 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack
 * 1989 California medfly attack
 * 2001 anthrax attacks
 * 2003 ricin letters