• Anthrax weaponization is the development and deployment of the bacterium Bacillus anthracis or, more commonly, its spore (referred to as anthrax), as a...
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    been "weaponized" with silica. Bioweapons experts who later viewed images of the anthrax used in the attacks saw no indication of "weaponization". Tests...
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    Anthrax is an infection caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis or Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis. Infection typically occurs by contact with the...
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  • concerns that anthrax could be used as a biological weapon (see anthrax weaponization). Secretary of Defense William Cohen stated that "anthrax poses a clear...
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    harmless, but it has since been deemed a human pathogen. Anthrax weaponization Biological Weapons Convention Dugway Proving Ground European Centre for Disease...
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    Anthrax vaccines are vaccines to prevent the livestock and human disease anthrax, caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. They have had a prominent...
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  • On 2 April 1979, spores of Bacillus anthracis (the causative agent of anthrax) were accidentally released from a Soviet Armed Forces research facility...
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  • Dark Harvest Commando (category Anthrax)
    site which had been used for anthrax weapon testing during World War II. They distributed on the mainland potentially anthrax-laden soil. The group identified...
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  • Anthrax hoaxes involving the use of white powder or labels to falsely suggest the use of anthrax are frequently reported in the United States and globally...
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    NSS Mission Accomplished speech Nayirah testimony Powell Doctrine Anthrax weaponization Oddo, John (2014). Intertextuality and the 24-Hour News Cycle: A...
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  • Nation Challenged: Biological Terror; 2 Pakistanis Linked to Papers on Anthrax Weapons". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 30 January 2013...
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    Anthrax toxin is a three-protein exotoxin secreted by virulent strains of the bacterium, Bacillus anthracis—the causative agent of anthrax. The toxin was...
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  • allowed the production of significant stockpiles of weaponized bio-agents: Bacterial agents: Anthrax, Brucella, Tularemia, etc. Viral agents: Smallpox,...
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    of virus, and four toxins. Of these, three—anthrax, botulinum and aflatoxin—had proceeded to weaponization for deployment. Because of the UN disarmament...
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  • Steven Hatfill (category 2001 anthrax attacks)
    media coverage beginning in mid-2002, when he was a suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks. His home was repeatedly raided by the FBI, his phone was tapped...
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  • biological agents used in weapons can be manufactured relatively quickly, cheaply and easily. Rather, it is the weaponization, storage, and delivery in...
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  • Rihab Taha (category Iraqi biological weapons program)
    biological weapons program to Saddam Hussein and was given an award for her work in biological weapons, specifically the development of anthrax and botulinum...
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    Anthrax vaccine adsorbed, sold under the brand name Biothrax among others, is a vaccine intended to provide acquired immunity against Bacillus anthracis...
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    Bruce Edwards Ivins (category 2001 anthrax attacks)
    Maryland, and the person identified by the FBI as the perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attacks. Ivins died on July 29, 2008, of an overdose of acetaminophen...
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    Bacillus anthracis (category Anthrax)
    Bacillus anthracis is a gram-positive and rod-shaped bacterium that causes anthrax, a deadly disease to livestock and, occasionally, to humans. It is the...
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    including anthrax, tetanus, cholera and especially food poisoning agents such as salmonella bacteria. secondly, researching and developing weapons in the...
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    allow for the large-scale weaponization of pathogens. During First World War, German military attempted to introduce anthrax into Allied livestock. In...
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  • multiple names: authors list (link) "U.S. officials declare researcher is anthrax killer". CNN.com. 2008-08-06. Retrieved 2020-05-18. "Ricin Letters Still...
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  • release of anthrax spores from a military facility where, in violation of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, the testing of anthrax weapons had been...
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    War, British scientists studied the use of biological weapons, including a test using anthrax on the Scottish island of Gruinard which left it contaminated...
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  • Vollum strain (category Anthrax)
    The Vollum strain is one of the 89 known strains of the anthrax bacterium (Bacillus anthracis). It is named Vollum after Roy Vollum, the Canadian-born...
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    known to have weaponized and stockpiled the following bio-agents (and to have pursued basic research on many more): Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) Yersinia...
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    in water, soil, plants, or animals. Bio-agents may be amenable to "weaponization" to render them easier to deploy or disseminate. Genetic modification...
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  • of anthrax, a disease of humans and other mammals caused by Bacillus anthracis, organized by year. "Emergencies, preparedness, response: Anthrax". World...
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  • Ames strain (category 2001 anthrax attacks)
    The Ames strain is one of 89 known strains of the anthrax bacterium (Bacillus anthracis). It was isolated from a diseased 14-month-old Beefmaster heifer...
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