germ warfare

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The Pentagon needs to improve defenses and readiness against biological weapons attacks and is ill-prepared for potential germ warfare attacks from China or other adversaries, according to a new biodefense posture report.

From Washington Times • Aug. 18, 2023

The United States once also had a sprawling germ warfare and biological weapons program; those weapons were destroyed in the 1970s.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2023

In the 1950s and 1960s, decades before the conspiracy theories were born, much of Britain was sprayed with airborne chemicals in a series of secret germ warfare tests.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2022

The dominant conspiracy theory — and I do not know how widespread it was, in terms of having a large number of believers — was that the 1918 flu was a form of germ warfare.

From Salon • May 8, 2021

Andy's first glance caught such phrases as "alleged Russian plot" and "germ warfare" and "authorities hopelessly baffled."

From The Plague by Keller, Teddy