The word "bioweapon" is correct in written English.
It is used to refer to biological agents that are intentionally used to harm or kill people, animals, or plants.
Example: "The government is concerned about the potential use of a bioweapon in warfare."
Alternatives: "Biological weapon" or "Bio-agent."
The most dangerous bioweapon on the planet is Variola major, a form of the smallpox virus.
ANNALS OF WARFARE about the former Soviet Union's biological weapons program, as well as Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov, (Ken Alibek) a former director of the Russian program, mentioning the since-discontinued American program at the height of the Cold War, as well as the potential for bioweapon proliferation.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, most scientists had assumed that the difficulty of building a bioweapon was far beyond the ability of a terror cell, but looking again in the early 21st century, many experts came to believe that advances in laboratory technology brought the science within reach.
"A person at a graduate-school level has all the tools and technologies to implement a sophisticated program to create a bioweapon".
An airplane flying into a building can kill a few thousand people; an effective bioweapon, millions.
I think the amazing thing is that one hasn't seen more bioterrorism, given the relative ease of making a bioweapon and the relative difficulty of defending".
And at the NRL, Cy Tamanaha has had similar success detecting ricin, staphylococcal enterotoxin B and other potential bioweapons.
Mr Ivins, a bioweapons researcher at the army's medical research institute, apparently committed suicide in late July.
The American Society of Microbiology, which published the mousepox paper, has introduced a policy of challenging the authors of provocative papers to consider their wider implications.Plenty of scientists have squared work on bioweapons with their consciences in the past, and 9,000 of them used to work in the Soviet biological weapons programme.
So far, none of the regimes thought to possess them is known to have passed on bioweapons to a terrorist group, though no one really knows.When the UN weapons inspectors were thrown out of Iraq in 1998, they had already destroyed thousands of litres of anthrax and other germ agents; but a whopping 17 tonnes of imported medium for growing germs were still unaccounted for.
But widespread panic may make firm orders necessary.Out of rogue handsThe other vital tactic is to stop terrorists getting hold of the germs to make bioweapons.
