RT Book, Section
A1 Durrani, Timur S.
A2 Olson, Kent R.
A2 Anderson, Ilene B.
A2 Benowitz, Neal L.
A2 Blanc, Paul D.
A2 Clark, Richard F.
A2 Kearney, Thomas E.
A2 Kim-Katz, Susan Y.
A2 Wu, Alan H. B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1174607292
T1 WARFARE AGENTS—BIOLOGICAL
T2 Poisoning & Drug Overdose, 7e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071839792
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1174607292
RD 2024/04/24
AB Biological  weapons  have  been  used  since  antiquity,  with  documented  cases  dating  back  to  the  6th  century  BC,  when  the  Assyrians  poisoned  wells  with  ergots.  In  the  late  1930s  and  early  1940s,  the  Japanese  Army  (Unit  731)  experimented  on  prisoners  of  war  in  Manchuria  with  biological  agents  that  are  thought  to  have  resulted  in  at  least  10,000  deaths.  Although  in  1972  over  100  nations  signed  the  Biological  Weapons  Convention,  both  the  former  Soviet  Union  and  Iraq  have  admitted  to  the  production  of  biological  weapons,  and  many  other  countries  are  suspected  of  continuing  their  programs.  Today,  bioweapons  are  considered  the  cheapest  and  easiest  weapons  of  mass  destruction  to  produce.