What is "bioweapons"

Usage examples of "bioweapons".

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.

As it turned out, the concerns of Western scientists about the hazards of genetic engineering provided a blueprint for what was to become the Soviet bioweapons program.

Bush and Thatcher put intense personal pressure on Mikhail Gorbachev to come clean about bioweapons and allow an inspection team to tour some of the Soviet bioweapons facilities.

And there were a number of bioweapons-production facilities the scale of Obolensk scattered across Russia.

This informa­tion was corroborated and expanded upon by two more senior defectors from the Russian bioweapons program.

Some of them are working for bioweapons programs in other countries, probably in Iran and Syria, possibly in Iraq, and perhaps in Asian countries.