• 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?
• the Spanish–American War-era Fort Terry on Plum Island was used as a U.S. biological weapons research facility from 1952 to 1969?

Facts on topics related to Biological weapons

Biological weapon

• 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?
• 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?
• 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?

Nuclear weapon

• David Snell, who was the first person to allege that Japan had tested its own atomic bomb prior to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, later became a writer for Life Magazine?
• Program 437 was a United States military antisatellite program using nuclear weapons delivered by Thor ballistic missiles as the primary mechanism of defeating enemy satellites?
• a congressional reporter mistranscribed testimony about a U.S. nuclear test from 1962 named Sedan nuclear test, leading to fears that a nuclear weapon had actually been tested in the Sudan?
• after World War II, the Soviets took nearly 100 tons of uranium oxide as reparations from a facility of the company Auergesellschaft, accelerating their development of the atomic bomb by a year?
• the documentary film Countdown to Zero, which analyzes the likelihood of the use of nuclear weapons, has been privately screened for U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton?
• the Norwegian heavy water sabotage was a key part of Allied efforts to prevent Nazi Germany from developing nuclear weapons?
• 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?
• under the leadership of its Ministry of Defense, Ukraine voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons?