• 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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    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 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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    biological weapons, specifically anthrax, and designs for crude delivery systems such as balloons. Pakistan has no publicly acknowledged chemical weapons programme...
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  • Dorset Biological Warfare Experiments (category United Kingdom biological weapons program)
    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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    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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  • 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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  • allowed the production of significant stockpiles of weaponized bio-agents: Bacterial agents: Anthrax, Brucella, Tularemia, etc. Viral agents: Smallpox,...
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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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  • 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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  • Steven Hatfill (category 2001 anthrax attacks)
    American pathologist and biological weapons expert. In 2002, he came to worldwide attention as a suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks, a charge of which he was...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Kantubek (category Soviet biological weapons program)
    to be the world's largest anthrax dumping grounds. His team of 113 people neutralized between 100 and 200 tonnes of anthrax over a three-month period...
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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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    Gruinard Island (category United Kingdom biological weapons program)
    and was dangerous for all mammals after military experiments with the anthrax bacterium, until it was decontaminated in 1990. The island was mentioned...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • and found to contain anthrax spores. An article by Gillan dated 16 October stated that, "Iraq is known to have amassed enough weapons of mass destruction...
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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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    including anthrax, tetanus, cholera and especially food poisoning agents such as salmonella bacteria. secondly, researching and developing weapons in the...
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  • a second season. The second season, titled The Hot Zone: Anthrax, focuses on the 2001 anthrax attacks, a week after September 11. The season, also consisting...
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