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DOUGWAY PROVING GROUND, "much of the activity at Dugway Proving Ground is a closely guarded secret. Activities at Dugway included aerial nerve agent testing ... Dugway was still producing small quantities of anthrax as late as 1998, 30 years after the United States renounced biological weapons. There were at least 1,100 other chemical tests at Dugway during the time period of the Dugway sheep incident." http://lnkd.in/dft3Xjj View in LinkedIn

COLD WAR ANTI-CROP AGENTS. "Diseases such as wheat blast and rice blast were weaponized in aerial spray tanks and cluster bombs for delivery to enemy watersheds in agricultural regions to initiate epiphytotics (epidemics among plants). When the United States renounced its offensive biological warfare program in 1969 and 1970, the vast majority of its biological arsenal was composed of these plant diseases. Scorched earth tactics or destroying livestock and farmland were carried out in the Vietnam war (cf. Agent Orange) and Eelam War in Sri Lanka." http://lnkd.in/dFHK9z5 View in LinkedIn

"THE DUGWAY SHEEP INCIDENT, also known as the Skull Valley sheep kill, was a 1968 sheep kill that has been connected to United States Army chemical and biological warfare programs at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. Six thousand sheep were killed on ranches near the base." http://lnkd.in/dft3Xjj View in LinkedIn

"ANTI-AGRICULTURAL BIOWARFARE ... there exist a variety of possibilities for economic gain for perpetrators, and the list of possible perpetrators includes corporations, which may have state-of-the-art technical expertise. Furthermore, attacks are substantially easier to do: the agents aren’t hazardous to humans, delivery systems are readily available and unsophisticated, maximum effect may only require a few cases, delivery from outside the target country is possible, and an effective attack can be constructed to appear natural." http://lnkd.in/dZa_SKe View in LinkedIn

SUPER-ANTHRAX IN RUSSIAN LEAK. "The strain of anthrax produced in Military Compound 19 near Sverdlovsk was the most powerful in the Soviet arsenal ("Anthrax 836"). It had been isolated as a result of another anthrax leak accident that happened in 1953 in the city of Kirov. A leak from a bacteriological facility contaminated the city sewer system ... This strain was planned to be used to arm warheads for the SS-18 ICBM, which would target American cities, among other targets." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_Anthrax_leak View in LinkedIn

RUSSIAN BIOWARFARE R&D BASED ON JAPANESE WORK. "The closed city of Sverdlovsk had been a ... military-industrial complex since World War II. A major nuclear accident ... in 1957, resulting in (massive) spread of radioactive dust. The biological weapons facility ... was built after World War II, using documentation captured in Manchuria from the Japanese germ warfare program." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_Anthrax_leak View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL CHERNOBYL. "The largest biological weapons accident known– the anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) in the Soviet Union in 1979, sheep became ill with anthrax as far as 200 kilometers from the release point of the organism from a military facility in the southeastern portion of the city (known as Compound 19 and still off limits to visitors today) ..." All records were expunged. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodefense View in LinkedIn

AGENT ORANGE. "During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military sprayed 20 million gallons of chemicals, including the very toxic Agent Orange, on the forests and farmlands of Vietnam and neighboring countries ... Vietnam estimates that as a result of the decade-long chemical attack, 400,000 people were killed or maimed, 500,000 babies have been born with birth defects, and 2 million have suffered from cancer or other illnesses." http://lnkd.in/dKZdVjF View in LinkedIn

SYRIAN BIOWARFARE ALLEGATIONS. "Syria's biological warfare programs are latent, compartmentalized and spread across its remaining bio-pharmaceutical infrastructure. The programs are designed to be highly agile to allow swift production if required." Worryingly, the report suggests that ... "the widespread looting of bio-pharmaceutical laboratories throughout the country." http://lnkd.in/dwGASnf View in LinkedIn

RUSSIAN STOCKPILES. "Possessed the world’s largest chemical weapons stockpile: 40,000 metric tons of chemical agent, including VX, sarin, soman, mustard, lewisite, mustard-lewisite mixtures, and phosgene. Russia has declared this to the OPCW and has commenced destruction ... It plans to complete destruction between 2015-2016." http://lnkd.in/dd2C6wz View in LinkedIn