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This questionnaire asks about Italian progress with the development of biological weapons.

This memo summarizes the possible effects of biological weapons use and highlights signs of enemy use and particular agents of concern.

This report is in response to specific questions from the Joint Committee on New Weapons and Equipment.

Memo of Japanese origin that discusses the alleged use of biological and chemical weapons by the Germans and Chinese to make the point that the risk is present and even increasing in peacetime. It then discusses the different threats posed by…

Henry L. Stimson requested that the National Academy of Sciences establish a committee [formed as the War Bureau of Consultants (WBC) Committee] to assess all aspects of the potential for threat of biological weapons. The committee evaluated the…

The author gives their opinion on the potential of biological warfare on a country with the public health capabilities of their own, Italy.

The author assesses the feasibility of biological warfare against modern public health.

The Committee on Chemical Warfare was asked by the Temporary Mixed Commission to report on the "probable effects of chemical discoveries in future wars". This was later enlarged to include bacteriological warfare.