# 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.

## Agencies and organizations
### 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

## 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. World War II-era biological bomb

### Other weapons

* 20 mm particulate projectile
* E120 bomblet
* [50 lb. cluster bomb, held 544 bomblets
* E14 munition, sub-munition 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
* 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 (technically a chemical weapon)
* 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