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Parent topics
- Biological weapon [r]: Living organisms, or substances produced by living organisms, used as weapons to produce death or disease in human or agricultural populations [e]
- Chemical weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
Use and plans
- Aum Shinrikyo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Biopreparat [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chemical Corps [r]: A branch of military service concerned with detection and decontamination of chemical, biological and radiological agents; smoke generation; and, in the past, offensive chemical warfare and biological warfare [e]
- Iraq and weapons of mass destruction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Iran-Iraq War [r]: War between Iran and Iraq, 1980-1988, with very high casualties on both sides, but an inconclusive result [e]
- French support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war [r]: French technical assistance and sales of military and dual-use equipment, beginning in approximately 1975, to Iraq, and continuing through the Iran-Iraq War; France and the Soviet Union were the leading military suppliers to Iraq [e]
- Soviet support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War [r]: Soviet technical assistance and sales of military and dual-use equipment, beginning in approximately 1975, to Iraq, and continuing through the Iran-Iraq War; the Soviet Union and France were the leading military suppliers to Iraq [e]
- U.K. support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War [r]: Most support to Iraq was without the knowledge or approval of U.K. government, but through covert Iraqi purchasing; some authorized dual-use sales were made, but largely ceased with the UN embargo [e]
- U.S. support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War [r]: Technological aid, intelligence, the sale of dual-use and military equipment, but no direct combat against Iran, in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War [e]
- Single Integrated Operational Plan [r]: The U.S. plan and doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons in a large campaign, prepared for all services by the United States Strategic Command, based on Joint Chiefs of Staff guidance [e]
- Strategic ambiguity [r]: Principally in the context of nuclear weapons but generally to advanced weapon systems, a national policy not to confirm or deny the possession of certain capabilities. [e]
- United States Strategic Command [r]: The U.S. unified headquarters for the missions of worldwide nuclear and conventional precision strike; command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in support of strategic operations; global network operations of the Global Information Grid, information operations, ballistic missile defense, and reduction of weapons of mass destruction threats [e]
- Unit 731 [r]: Imperial Japanese Army research and development facility for biological weapons, headquartered in Pingfan, Manchuria; headed by Gen. Shiro Ishii; engaged in human experimentation and field use of weapons [e]
Enablers
- Ballistic missile [r]: A guided missile which, once its engines stop firing, follows a generally parabolic path to its target, defined by momentum, aerodynamic resistance, and gravity [e]
- Bioterrorism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chemical terrorism [r]: Terrorism that uses the toxic effects of chemicals to kill, injure, or otherwise adversely affect its targets. [e]
- Cruise missile [r]: A guided missile that uses aerodynamic forces, as well as active jet or rocket propulsion, to stay airborne and to adjust its course. [e]
Nonproliferation
- 1925 Geneva Protocol [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arms control [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arms Control and Disarmament Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention [r]: Add brief definition or description
- CDC Bioterrorism Agents-Disease list [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chemical Weapons Convention [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Counterproliferation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- End user certificate [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Missile Technology Control Regime [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National technical means of verification [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Select Agent Program [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [r]: Add brief definition or description
- UNSCOM [r]: Add brief definition or description
- UNMOVIC [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. intelligence and transnational counterproliferation activities [r]: Add brief definition or description
Consequence management
- Acute radiation syndrome [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Decontamination [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Federal Emergency Management Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mass casualty incident [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Preventive medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Solution Unsatisfactory (short story) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- SS-1 SCUD [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Saddam Hussein [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Security organization of Saddam Hussein [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thermobaric warhead [r]: Add brief definition or description