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United States ~ Weapons of Mass Destruction

Nuclear Weapons:

The United States is known to have possessed three types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, and biological weapons.

The U.S. is the only country to have used nuclear weapons in combat, when it detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. It had secretly developed the earliest form of the atomic weapon during the 1940’s under the title “Manhattan Project”. The United States pioneered the development of both the nuclear fission and hydrogen bombs (the latter involving nuclear fusion). It was the world’s first and only nuclear power for four years (1945–1949), until the Soviet Union managed to produce its own nuclear weapon. The United States has the second largest number of nuclear weapons in the world, after Russia.

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Currently, the United States nuclear arsenal is deployed in three areas:

Land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs;
Sea-based, nuclear submarine-launched ballistic missiles, or SLBMs; and
Air-based nuclear weapons of the U.S. Air Force’s heavy bomber group

The U.S. government decided not to sign the UN treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, a binding agreement for negotiations for the total elimination of nuclear weapons, supported by more than 120 nations. It was passed on 7 July 2017.

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), or the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty, is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons, with the goal of leading towards their total elimination. In order to come into effect, signature and ratification by at least 50 countries is required. As of 25 November 2019, 34 states have ratified the treaty. The treaty prohibits the development, testing, production, stockpiling, stationing, transfer, use and threat of use of nuclear weapons, as well as assistance and encouragement to the prohibited activities.

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The U.S. Air Force also operates a strategic nuclear bomber fleet. The bomber force consists of 36 nuclear-armed B-52 Stratofortresses, and 20 B-2 Spirits

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Biological Weapons

The United States biological weapons program

The United States biological weapons program began in 1943. It was replaced by the United States biological defense program.

Agents studied and weaponized:

When the U.S. biological warfare program ended in 1969 it had developed six mass-produced, battle-ready biological weapons in the form of agentsthat cause anthrax, tularemia, brucellosis, Q-fever, VEE, and botulism. In addition staphylococcal enterotoxin B was produced as an incapacitating agent.

In addition to the agents that were ready to be used, the U.S. program conducted research into the weaponization of more than 20 other agents.

They included:

Smallpox, EEE (Eastern ), and WWE , (Western Equine Encephalitis), AHF, (Argentinian hemorrhagic fever), Hantavirus, BHF, (Bolivian hemorrhagic fever), Lassfever, glanders, melioidosis, Bubonic plague, yellow fever, psittacosis, typhus, dengue fever, Rift Valley fever (RVF), CHIKV, late blight of potato, rinderpest, Newcastle disease, bird flu, and the toxin Ricin.

Authors Note:

Now I realize that many of these agents or fevers or… the plague,Yellow fever, Nerve Agents etc., are terrible and horrible. However, if your still reading this article, I congratulate you on your patience and interest. It is truly astonishing to me that these terrible agents or organisms, fevers, and for the love of God, …..The Bubonic Plague !!! As a weapon! Why..... Why must humanity continue to study, research, test, and develop more and greater methods of killing ourselves?!

Chemical Weapons

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List of U.S. Chemical Weapons Topics

Agents stockpiled at the time of Chemical Weapons Convention:

isopropyl aminoethylmethyl phosphonite, or QL, part of a binary weapon (VX)
Methylphosphonyl difluoride (known to the military as DF) and a mixture of isopropyl alcohol and isopropyl amine (known as OPA), a binary chemical weapon (sarin)
Mustard gas
Sarin (GB)
VX
Rainbow Herbicides

Operations and Projects:

HERE IS ANOTHER TWISTED EXAMPLE OF THE HIGHLY SECRET ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE OCCURRED AT DUGWAY PROVING GROUND.

OPERATION BIG ITCH WAS A U.S. ENTOMOLOGICAL WARFARE FIELD TEST USING UNINFECTED FLEAS TO DETERMINE THEIR COVERAGE AND SURVIVABILITY AS A VECTOR FOR BIOLOGICAL AGENTS. THE TESTS WERE CONDUCTED AT DUGWAY PROVING GROUND IN 1954. OPERATION BIG ITCH WAS A SEPTEMBER 1954 SERIES OF TESTS AT DUGWAY PROVING GROUND IN UTAH..

Now pay attention…… this one REALLY bothers me….

Project 112 was a biological and chemical weapon experimentation project conducted by the United States Department of Defense from 1962 to 1973.

In May 1965, vulnerability tests in the U.S. using the anthrax simulant Bacillus globigii were performed in the Washington D.C. area by SOD covert agents. One test was conducted at the Greyhound bus terminal and the other at the north terminal of the National Airport. In these tests the bacteria were released from spray generators hidden in specially built briefcases. SOD also conducted a series of tests in the New York City Subway systembetween 7 and 10 June 1966 by dropping light bulbs filled with Bacillus subtilis var. niger. In the latter tests, results indicated that a city-level epidemic would have occurred.

Local police and transit authorities were not informed of these tests.

Operation CHASE, an operation that dumped conventional and chemical munitions at sea

Operation Davy Jones’ Locker, a post-World War II operation aimed at dumping German chemical weapons at seas

Operation Geranium, a 1948 operation that dumped lewisite into the Atlantic Ocean.

Operation Paperclip, a program beginning in 1945 to bring German scientists to the U.S.

Operation Ranch Hand, defoliant operations during the Vietnam War ~ Agent Orange

Operation Red Hat, an early 1970 program to repatriate weapons from Okinawa

Operation Snoopy, Vietnam War people sniffer operations.

Operation Steel Box, an operation which moved chemical weapons out of Germany in 1990.

Operation Big Buzz

Operation Big Itch

Operation Blue Skies