• the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea destroys enough rice to feed more than 60 million people annually, and that its spores were prepared as an anti-plant biological weapon during World War II?
• the UK Government Decontamination Service was set up in 2005 after increased threats of terrorism to help the United Kingdom resist and recover from biological, chemical and nuclear incidents?
• recommendations from the U.S. War Bureau of Consultants in 1942 led to the founding of the War Research Service and a bio-weapons program?

Facts on topics related to Biological weapon

Biological weapons

• the Spanish–American War-era Fort Terry on Plum Island was used as a U.S. biological weapons research facility from 1952 to 1969?
• the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack was the first bioterrorism attack in the United States, and one of only two confirmed terrorist uses of biological weapons to harm humans?

Biological agent

• from 1962 to 1973, the Deseret Test Center in Fort Douglas, Utah, oversaw 46 tests using simulants and live biological and chemical agents?
• though the Vigo Ordnance Plant never produced any biological agents it did produce 8,000 pounds (3,600 kg) of the anthrax simulant Bacillus globigii?

Chemical warfare

• during the interwar period chief of the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service Amos Fries viewed chemical disarmament as a Communist plot?
• in 1953, the U.S. Army used human subjects to test decontamination methods for chemical and biological agents as part of Operation Top Hat?
• the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (pictured) destroyed more than 400,000 American chemical munitions from 1990 to 2000?