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Epidemiological concern in wartime
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bioweapon
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n. any weapon designed to be used in biological warfare
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. any weapon usable in biological warfare; "they feared use of the smallpox virus as a bioweapon" [syn: biological weapon , bioarm ]
Usage examples of bioweapon.
Yuuzhan Vong are immune to that bioweapon that got loose aboard the shuttle.
The arms-sisters had been ordered not to occupy it, in case there was a bioweapon or some other kind of poison in there.
Queens-of-All will send over a nuclear bomb, or another bioweapon, something that is less subject to industrial accidents.
A Colonel Baptiste, who succumbed to a bioweapon passed him by a prostitute in Doisy-Dyan.
They will return to their warfare, chewing up yet more resources, wasting more years, and digging themselves even farther into their graves, until another bioweapon is released to finish the descent.
The idea that bioweapons were never fully tested, were never made to work, or are unusable is a myth that persists to this day.
The problem with bioweapons was not that they didn't work, it was that they worked too well.
The Soviets believed that Nixon was lying, that he never really canceled the American bioweapons program.
He ordered a secret crash acceleration of the Soviet bioweapons program in response to a perceived threat from the United States.
For there was no way to verify whether or not violations were taking place, and the truth is that much progress was made in the development and engineering of bioweapons in various places around the world.
He was believed to be one of the top scientists in Iraq's bioweapons program.
Anthrax is powerful, but it is far less efficient than many bioweapons.
Fearing that he was telling everything about their bioweapons program, and in an effort to placate the United Nations Security Council, Iraqi officials suddenly disclosed that Al Hakam was, in fact, an anthrax weapons plant.
There were indications that the Iraqi bioweapons program was very much alive, and was focusing more and more on viruses, on genetic engineering, and on miniaturization of the research and production processes - using tiny bioreactors that can be hidden in small rooms.
Trying to get the White House to pay attention to bioweapons is like pulling teeth.