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Originally Posted by Targan
Yes indeed, and the Soviets' weaponised anthrax production is now widely known of too. Literally dozens of TONS of it right up to the end of the Soviet Union. I'd like to point the finger and say 'evil, evil bastards' but I suspect all of the major powers during the Cold War had active biological weapons programs, and may well still have.
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America also had a very active biological warfare programme including anthrax among many other diseases, and there are allegations that the U.S used them during the Korean War and against Cuba in 1962, and maybe also in Vietnam. President Nixon ended all offensive aspects of the U.S. bio-weapons program in 1969. In 1975 the U.S. ratified both the 1925 Geneva Protocol and the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). However there are allegations that the US Army is evading the BWC by conduction research into non-lethal biological weapons, and has researched the potential of entomological warfare ie. using insects as a weapon.