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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.
Secretary Stimson conveyed the committees recommendations to President Roosevelt, who in May of 1942 authorized the secretary to create an organization within the Federal Security Agency to conduct the U.S. Biological Warfare Program so as to avoid public concern over Americas vulnerability.
Biological weapons disseminate disease-causing organisms or toxins to harm or kill humans, animals or plants. They can be deadly and highly contagious. Diseases caused by such weapons would not confine themselves to national borders and could spread rapidly around the world.
President Nixon terminated the U.S. offensive biological weapons program in 1969 and 1970. Research efforts were directed exclusively to the development of defensive measures, such as diagnostic tests. Despite the convention, biological weapons have been used for covert assassinations.
End of the program (19691973) President Richard M. Nixon issued his Statement on Chemical and Biological Defense Policies and Programs on November 25, 1969, in a speech from Fort Detrick. The statement officially ended all U.S. offensive biological weapons programs.
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They can be deadly and highly contagious. Diseases caused by such weapons would not confine themselves to national borders and could spread rapidly around the world. The consequences of the deliberate release of biological agents or toxins by state or non-state actors could be dramatic.
Examples of biological warfare during the past millennium Similarly, the smallpox epidemic among Indians could have been caused by contact with settlers. In addition, yellow fever is spread only by infected mosquitoes. During their conquest of South America, the Spanish might also have used smallpox as a weapon.
The Geneva Protocol The 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, commonly known as the 1925 Geneva Protocol, bans the use of chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons in war.

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