Iraqi bioweapons program | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 07/06/2019

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00:01:03 1 The program
00:01:11 1.1 Startup and foreign suppliers
00:02:38 1.2 Facilities, agents and production
00:04:13 1.3 Human experimentation
00:06:35 1.4 Bioweaponeers
00:07:46 2 Consequences of the program
00:07:56 2.1 1991 US response
00:08:51 2.2 Post-war inspections
00:10:22 2.3 Non-use by Hussein
00:11:39 2.4 2003 invasion of Iraq
00:13:50 2.5 2005 Iraq Survey Group report



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Saddam Hussein (1937–2006) initiated an extensive biological weapons (BW) program in Iraq in the early 1980s, in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) of 1972. Details of the BW  program—along with a chemical weapons program—surfaced only in the wake of the Gulf War (1990–91) following investigations conducted by the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) which had been charged with the post-war disarmament of Saddam's Iraq. By the end of the war, program scientists had investigated the BW potential of five bacterial strains, one fungal strain, five types of virus, and four toxins. Of these, three—anthrax, botulinum and aflatoxin—had proceeded to weaponization for deployment. Because of the UN disarmament program that followed the war, more is known today about the once-secret bioweapons program in Iraq than that of any other nation.