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Global Guide to Bioweapons
Click on the map or use the country links below to see each country's
bioweapons program status.
Algeria |
Canada |
China |
Egypt |
France |
Germany |
India |
Iran |
Iraq |
Israel |
Japan |
Libya |
North Korea |
Pakistan |
Russia |
South Africa |
Syria |
Taiwan |
United Kingdom |
United States
Algeria
Bioweapons status: Known to be actively researching biological agents but not
known to have successfully weaponized germs
Possible agents: Unknown
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Canada
Signatory state to the Biological Weapons Convention
Bioweapons status: Former program terminated and stockpile destroyed
(1970s)
Agents (former): Anthrax, rinderpest, botulinum toxin, Rocky Mountain spotted
fever, plague, tularemia, ricin
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China
Signatory state to the Biological Weapons Convention
Bioweapons status: Believed to secretly possess offensive bioweapons
program
Possible agents: Unknown
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Egypt
Bioweapons status: Known to be actively researching biological agents for
offensive and defensive programs
Possible Agents: Anthrax, botulinum toxin, plague, cholera, tularemia,
glanders, brucellosis, melioidosis, psittacosis, Q fever, Japanese B
encephalitis, Eastern equine encephalitis, influenza, smallpox,
mycotoxins
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France
Signatory state to the Biological Weapons Convention
Bioweapons status: Former program terminated and stockpile destroyed
(1980s)
Agents (former): Potato beetle, rinderpest, others unknown
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Germany
Signatory state to the Biological Weapons Convention
Bioweapons status: Former program terminated and stockpile destroyed
(1970s)
Agents (former): Plague, cholera, yellow fever, typhus, foot-and-mouth disease,
glanders, potato beetle, wheat fungus
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India
Signatory state to the Biological Weapons Convention
Bioweapons status: Known to be actively conducting biological weapons defense
research
Possible agents: Unknown
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Iran
Bioweapons status: Known to be actively researching and possibly producing
offensive biological weapons
Possible agents: Unknown
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Iraq
Signatory state to the Biological Weapons Convention
Bioweapons status: Previously actively researching and producing biological
weapons. Highly likely to be continuing bioweapons program today.
Possible agents: Anthrax, botulinum toxin, gas gangrene, aflatoxin,
trichothecene, mycotoxins, wheat cover smut, ricin, hemorrhagic conjunctivitis
virus, rotavirus, camel pox
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Israel
Bioweapons status: Known to be conducting offensive bioweapons research but no
evidence so far of successful bioweapons production
Possible agents: Unknown
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Japan
Signatory state to the Biological Weapons Convention
Bioweapons status: Former program terminated and stockpile destroyed
(1970s)
Agents(former): Anthrax, tularemia, plague, botulinum toxin, smallpox,
glanders, typhoid, typhus
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Libya
Signatory state to the Biological Weapons Convention
Bioweapons status: Known to be conducting research towards offensive
bioweapons
Possible agents: Unknown
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North Korea
Signatory state to the Biological Weapons Convention
Bioweapons status: Known to be researching biological agents for offensive
use
Possible agents: Anthrax, cholera, plague, smallpox, botulinum toxin,
hemorrhagic fever, typhoid, yellow fever
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Pakistan
Signatory state to the Biological Weapons Convention
Bioweapons status: Probable research and development of bioweapons
Possible agents: Unknown
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Russia
Signatory state to the Biological Weapons Convention
Bioweapons status: Conducting defensive bioweapons research, possibly working
beyond legitimate defense activities to offensive activities
Possible agents: Anthrax, tularemia, brucellosis, plague, Venezuelan equine
encephalitis, typhus, Q fever, botulinum toxin, smallpox, glanders, Marburg
infection, Ebola, Machupo virus, Argentinian hemorrhagic fever, yellow fever,
Lassa fever, Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis, Japanese encephalitis,
Russian spring-summer encephalitis, psittacosis, rinderpest, African swine
fever virus, wheat stem rust, rice blast
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South Africa
Signatory state to the Biological Weapons Convention
Bioweapons status: Former program terminated and stockpile destroyed
(1970s)
Agents (former): Anthrax, cholera, botulinum toxin
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Syria
Bioweapons status: Highly likely to be developing offensive bioweapons
Possible agents: Anthrax, botulinum toxin
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Taiwan
Signatory state to the Biological Weapons Convention
Bioweapons status: Possible bioweapons research program
Possible agents: Unknown
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U.K.
Signatory state to the Biological Weapons Convention
Bioweapons status: Former program terminated and stockpile destoyed
(1970s)
Agents (former): Anthrax
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U.S.
Signatory state to the Biological Weapons Convention
Bioweapons status: Extensive defensive research program
Possible agents (former): Anthrax, brucellosis, botulinum toxin, Eastern and
Western equine encephalitis, Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis, Argentinian
hemorrhagic fever, Korean hemorrhagic fever, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever,
tularemia, Q fever, Lassa fever, glanders, melioidosis, plague, yellow fever,
psittacosis, dengue fever, Rift Valley fever, Chikungunya disease virus, ricin,
rice blast, rice brown spot disease, late blight of potato, stem rust of
cereal, rinderpest virus, Newcastle disease virus, fowl plague virus
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