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

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

He wrote chapters on germ warfare and bioweapons for a U.S.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2020

Banning nuclear weapons, prohibiting the use of poison gases, or outlawing germ warfare will not remove the root causes of war.

From The Promise of World Peace by Universal House of Justice