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I removed the yellow rain section, because it was chemical, not biological warfare.
--- Why the Vatican is on the list of countries that once had Biological Weapons? Why have tried to check the sources but they lead me to websites that do not exist anymore.
I believe the following diseases are likely to be considered for use as biological weapons
tularemia, brucellosis, Q. fever, VEE, SEB, ricin, botulism toxin, mycotoxins
May you explain why you do think they should not ?
Besides, why did you remove low visibility, high potency, accessibility, and easy delivery, these are important
wikipedia:pages needing attention reckons this should be watched for NPOV - but I think it's probably ok at the mo. Opinions? Martin
Removed since this doesn't have much to do with bioweapons....
New technologies such as genetics, proteomics, molecular engineering, artificial intelligence and robotics led to new concerns. Robotics and (limited) artificial intelligence have been used in war, in particular by the United States. Proteomics and genetics have both been used in research into new chemical and biological weapons - again, the US has led the way here, researching "crowd control" chemical weapons that are permitted under the relevant treaties, and also pursuing "defensive" research into biological weapons. Molecular engineering has yet to be used in warfare, but has yet to be used in anything besides research into molecular engineering.
Supported by these concerns, some claim "NBC" weapons should now include genetic, proteomic, robotic and AI threats as well.
For example, one concern met with each of the "NBC" types is that the different treaties applicable had legal loopholes, due to confusion about the line between chemical and biological weapons (e.g. prions which are not organisms but simple single-molecule proteins, and could thereby be considered either chemical or biological), and the spread of "dual use" technology through commercial channels that could easily be put to military use.
Another concern was that most "NBC" treaties predated the ability to DNA-sequence and genetically modify biological entities (to be, make or carry poisonous substances, virus or prion), e.g. altering the well-understood e. coli bacterium to generate prions). [1]
Some of these technologies could have impacts far beyond a single generation of the human species in one place on Earth, and so are generally considered to be wholly inappropriate for conflict between nation-states. The only use of such weapons seems to be threatening human extinction (as North Korea began to do starting early in 2003) or mutual assured destruction of an opponent who attacks first - perhaps including other populations innocent in the conflict.
Miniaturization, mastery of genomes and proteomes, and adaptive software, all seem to have the potential to be combined to create pseudo-life-forms that may compete successfully with natural life. Indeed, some scientists in the artificial life field believe it is desirable to do so. The dangers of these technologies in combination, and of loss of human control over biological or robotic runaways, is a major reason that the United Nations seek to control their spread, especially to non-state actors such as terrorist groups, that typically have no population to defend, and so can be quite reckless, and are not concerned with the threat of retaliation against a nation.
So how did the election turn out? -- Andrew 20:30, Apr 28, 2004 (UTC)
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This is disputed, see smallpox. Ellsworth 23:58, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Dropped this sentence:
This is in conflict with the smallpox article - the French and Indian war began in 1756, and smallpox was certainly not "unknown in North America" before then. Ellsworth 16:11, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
From article on
Pontiac's Rebellion: On 24 June 1763, in a now infamous incident, the commander of Fort Pitt gave representatives of the besieging Delawares two blankets that had been exposed to smallpox, in hopes of spreading the disease to the Indians in order to end the siege. Modern polemical accounts of Indian/white relations often cite this incident as an example of genocide. However, although Indians in the area did contract smallpox, it is impossible to verify how many people (if any) contracted the disease as a result of the Fort Pitt incident; the disease was already in the area and may have easily reached the Indians through other vectors. Jeffrey Amherst’s name is usually associated with this incident, although the first record of Amherst suggesting trying to spread smallpox to the Indians is from the summer of 1764, after the commander at Fort Pitt had already made this attempt, apparently on his own initiative.
A number of discussion pages in Wiki have been debating this controversial issue. See Kevin Myers' recent edit on the Smallpox article. The paragraph above contains much the same information. WBardwin 04:47, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I really think pulmonary anthrax is an ideal choice for use in biological attacks. It is airborn and can have a mortallity rate of up to 90%! Biological weapons can be/are very scary. Subphreeky 17 July 2005
Read "Biohazard" and "Hot Zone" some time. The really scary agents are in the filovirus catigory and form hemorragic fevers. Militarizing Anthrax to acheave the particulate sizes and dispersion techneques in order to sufficently attack a large civilian population is a massive endevor. Spreading a readily transmissable virus like hemorragic Dengue Fever or Ebola Zaire is much more "low tech" and involves fewer rescorces and personnel. -NBCD Chief
Anthrax was a bust for the US biological program. In the end no one could say the ID50 was 8,000 spores/person, 23,000 spores/person, 50,000 spores/person, or 100,000 spores/person. At least with tularemia there was reproducible evidence with human test subjects. The value of anthrax was extrapolated from experiments with monkeys and a handfull of accidental cases. Even after the incident in Sverdlovsk and the Anthrax letters of 2001 the question of anthrax infectivity appears poor at best. A WWII memo on how no one had become infected by anthrax at the pilot plant, QA department or Vigo plant with anything more than a cutaneous sore left a question of the value of anthrax with researchers. Reid Kirby 20:35 S, 27AP08. —Preceding comment was added at 01:35, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello
I am considering compiling a list of Bio war incidents, I am looking for input on the proper name:
There could be several other choices, let me know what you think.
Yummy123 20:59, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
Improved the section on "attacking plants" to be more encyclopedic (covers both herbicides and plant diseases) and related it to actual biological warfare efforts. -- Reid Kirby 16:37, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
I am wondering why there isn't even a casual mention of biowarfare theories involving the AIDS virus inside this article? Did you know nobel prize winning scientists have alleged that and there is a significant amount of information available? Would it be ok with the regular editors of this article if info on AIDS and biowarfare theories is added to this article? zen master T 04:45, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
can you be more specific- which nobel laureate claimed HIV and bio-warfare connection? Was it really a scientist? The only nobel laureate I can think of claiming this would be mr. Nelson Mandela Xmort 03:45, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
No one watches this talk page? zen master T 01:06, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
What does this mean? Did Nixon create the policy? This is a bad sentence. I'm not changing it because I'm not sure what it means to say exactly. Someone who does please rewrite it. If no one changes it, I'll just delete the reference to Nixon, since it doesn't make any sense as written. Torgo 01:54, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
nixon was an idiot anyways most peopel think, & we know he lies, that sentence was likely made public for better USA image, & to throw others off from bioweapons research themselves, & if anybody would hav used bioweapons in a jam, even the nasty primitiv ones of back then... it mighta been Nixon!
A link to the following article should be added: ...Even though it must be expected that the figures given in this report might be exaggerated, the fact that Polish underground fighters caused some casualties to the German occupational forces is indubitable, and even though such guerilla warfare against an occupational power is illegal, one cannot blame the Poles morally for waging such a war against what they conceived to be an illegal occupation. What is of interest here is the penultimate page of this report, which lists under "3. Activities of retaliation":
"Typhoid fever microbes and typhoid fever lice: in a few hundred cases"
Aspects of Biological Warfare During World War II -- contributed unsigned by 198.54.202.82 (11:54, 15 June 2006)
Typhus and Typhoid fever are two distinct diseases, but this article doesn't seem to understand the difference. The quotation above accurately reflects the web site quoted. I would say it is not dependable enough, without reference to another source. WBardwin 21:48, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
The sentence that ends in "...though it is generally believed that such weapons were never used." Should be backed up by a source proving the most believe that such weapons where never used by the U.S. military. Also the sentence "This view was challenged by China and North Korea, who accused the United States of large-scale field testing of biological weapons against them during the Korean War (1950-1953)." is not completely accurate as more then just China and North Korea made such a claim. Their was even those in the US who claimed this also such as reporter named John W. Powell who supported the bio-weapons use claim in an article he wrote in the early 1950's, which led to the government attempting unsuccessfully to try him for sedition [2]. The statement "Their accusation is substantiated by Stephen Endicott and Edward Hagerman in 'The United States and Biological Warfare: secrets of the early Cold War and Korea' (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1998)." seems to contradict the claim that it is widely believed that such weapons were never used. Is this section trying to claim the majority of people live in denial over the claim despite it being substantiated or maybe the book is not believed by most to substantiate the claim to the degree the statement seems to claim? -- Cab88 18:48, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Could use votes to save this article, thanks MapleTree 22:18, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
Some of the agents listed above this heading are also naturally occuring. Anthrax, for example, occurs naturally in sheeps wool. Having this listing below the list of possible agents gives the idea that those agents not on the sub list are not naturally occuring. Ideas on how to clean this up? Dwade21 22:34, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
However, new information has surfaced within the last decade, which alleges a more active Japanese usage. For example, firsthand accounts testify the Japanese infected civilians through the distribution of plagued foodstuffs, such as dumplings and vegetables. There are also reports of contaminated water supplies. Such estimates report over 580,000 victims, largely due to plague and cholera outbreaks. In addition, repeated seasonal outbreaks after the conclusion of the war bring the death toll much higher.
This section either needs to be footnoted with a reference to a credible source or else removed. It is irresponsible to make revisionist claims of "estimates" of over half a million people being killed and then not even bother to include a source for such dramatic claims. It's one thing to neglect references to facts that can be corroborated by checking any of the standard works on the subject but this is obviously well outside the scope of such cases.
UPDATE: Added the "weasel" tag to flag the section in question. Lexington50 08:25, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
I was reading through the intro to the topic when I noticed that both Chemical Weapons Convention and Biological Weapons convention are used. "Note that using nonliving toxic products, even if produced by living organisms (e.g., toxins), is considered chemical warfare under the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention." I think this helps, but shouldn't Chemical Weapons Convention be a link like the BWC? It seems that if someone were researching toxins produced by organisms and they went here, they would be further interested in the CWC. Ninjablu 20:40, 23 May 2007 (UTC) ninjablu
I think the first paragraph of this section should be changed. It's spoken in a first person US perspective rather than the encyclopedic perspectve that should be used on wikipedia. Just a thought maybe: I'm most likely talking utter rubish! Anonymous 20:34, 19 october 2007 (GMT)
There really needs to be independent sourcing about both biological agent codes and weapon designations. I'm willing to look at verifiable evidence, but, for example, the agent codes, in several cases, are different from what I worked with in the seventies.
The "Big Five" also needs more sourcing, and a new stub article isn't quite enough. While the one citation does appear to be from a reputable source, from my personal experience, if I quote something that I wrote in a peer-reviewed article, I still try to add separate confirming sources. Howard C. Berkowitz ( talk) 15:39, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
The various diseases mentioned as being considered for weaponization are followed respectively by brackets containing letters. What do these signify? 78.147.167.156 ( talk) 12:50, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
The letters behind the biologicals mentioned refer to the military symbol assigned by the United States. These symbols were assigned during the Cold War period, and under went changes for security, formulation, and realignment. A more complete list is Biological_agent.
During the Cold War a military plan would state something like: "B-47 sotries with SUU-24/B dispensers loaded with M143/UL." That is, a B-47 Stratojet medium bomber had a SUU-24/B bomblet dispenser in its bombay. The bomblet dispenser carried M143 spherical bursting bomblets filled with Biological Agent UL - UL being the military symbol for tularemia (lethal). Later UL was changed to SR, and an incapacitating variant of tularemia was standardized as agent JT. UL2 would mean the agent was a dry-type, freeze dried preperation milled to a consistency similar to talc powder. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reid Kirby ( talk • contribs) 18:06, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Instead of linking to a video game article, why not link to List of fictional diseases? Of course, they're all not based on BW, but in my own opinion, it's better than linking to a specific list of fictional viruses? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.7.141.45 ( talk) 02:06, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
-- IvoShandor ( talk) 22:33, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
Jews poisoning wells - that's a quite old antisemitic idéé fixe. And the sources lead to nowhere. I've googled a bit about the "event" and basically ended up on Palestinian or plainly antisemitic sites. This passage should be deleted. -- Justdont ( talk) 00:01, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
It is stated in the article that ingesting ergot has similar effects to LSD. Lysergic acid diethylamide can be produced from compounds in the ergot fungus, but ingesting the fungus itself produces ergotism, which includes attack of gangrene due to vasoconstriction, convulsions, diarrhea, etc. The effects are not like LSD except that one may hallucinate while poisoned. This may have more to do with the fact that you are dying a severe and horrible death than intoxication effects produced by the alkaloids. I am editing the article to reflect the fact that ergot induces ergotism, not LSD-like effects. I doubt the Assyrians would have wanted to poison a water supply with something that would have an extremely low toxicity (like LSD), but instead want to kill and severely maim their targets with the fungus.
Edits: Signed in and resigned this post to include my username, edited a mistake I made in this post. psycherhexic ( talk) 18:02, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (= mad-cow disease), Anthrax, Swine influenza, Avian influenza (= bird flu), AIDS, SARS, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and Ebola. Böri ( talk) 12:52, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
does anybody know where the documents are that relate to wrapping virulence & toxicity factors into shells from virus or bacteria that arent typicly used for weapons??? such as the BioPen bypass agents for example used & tailored to target all adult males in any given area but not detected with standard equipment? and does anybody know if the CDC regulates say internal components of smallpox virus... or just the shell??? what exactly defines 'smallpox' under current US law?
nicholas —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.115.224.244 ( talk) 01:53, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
I've found sources for all but William C. Patrick III, Yuri Ovchinnikov and Richard Preston so they will still need sources found for them. If this can't be done they'll have to be removed. Thanks. --
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The NLM Profiles in Science website for a now deceased geneticist and Nobel Lauriate holds several hundred pieces of correspondence, including correspondence showing contractual research at Camp Detrick to do biological warfare. I wish to add the name of this person to the list of biological warfare weaponeers. Is this reasonable? Shadow600 ( talk) 03:50, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
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This is very interesting, and may deserve a mention. When news agencies show police firing water cannons against protestors, and then the protestors respond with violence, it may not be "just water" that they're being attacked with:
http://www.voanews.com/content/yemen-experiments-with-right-to-bear-arms--133255713/173303.html
"As the student protestors in Change Square rose from Juma prayers on March 18, armored vehicles of Yemeni security forces began spraying the demonstrators with sewage water. Billows of smoke rose from tires set on fire. Finally, shots rang out and students began to fall down."
Badon ( talk) 02:25, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
The section "List of BW institutions, programs, projects and sites by country" would benefit from separating out defensive or research type programs, from current active production or stockpiling. -- Beland ( talk) 18:23, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vNW9meqny4&t=33m02s — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.24.140 ( talk) 02:31, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
The very first sentence is "It has been argued that rational people would never use biological weapons offensively". This is obviously POV. Shouldn't that go in another subsection like "controversy" or "opposition"? Dzylon ( talk) 14:43, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
More than 50% of that is devoted to some test(s) in Okinawa which may not even have happened (there is no official acknowledgement as of today.) I think it's WP:UNDUE and COATRACK in a top-level article like this. What about the Soviet program, etc. A good, balanced source for an overview article like is "Anticrop Biological Weapons Programs" by Simon M. Whitby in Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rózsa, and Malcolm Dando (eds.), Deadly Cultures: BiologicalWeapons since 1945. 86.121.18.17 ( talk) 20:57, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
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Although categorized as such in treaties, this is technically a misnomer since bio-warfare does not destroy any property at all and in some cases it may be the main reason for deploying these weapons. Mass murder would be a more appropriate term. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.169.42.228 ( talk) 17:46, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
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Germ warfare in German occupied territories: https://archive.org/details/ReportFromPolishSecretArmyOfPolandTyphoidFeverAsAWeaponBiologicalWeaponDuringWorldWarTwo1943
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During the 1948 War, Acre was besieged by Israeli forces. A typhoid fever outbreak occurred in Acre at this time. According to the Red Cross archives, an emergency meeting held at the Lebanese Red Cross hospital in Acre concluded that the infection was water borne, not due to crowded or unhygienic conditions.[36] Brigadier Beveridge, chief of the British medical services, Colonel Bonnet of the British Army, and delegates of Red Cross were present in this meeting. Beveridge proclaimed at the time that "Nothing like that ever happened in Palestine". According to anti-Zionist historian Ilan Pappé, even the guarded language of Red Cross reports points to outside poisoning as the sole explanation of the outbreak-- from the wiki. 144.41.3.22 ( talk) 10:00, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
"A British officer sent 300 smallpox-infected blankets to the rebel plantations during the Yorktown campaign of 1781, and the British may deliberately have used smallpox as a weapon of war in other instances.38 Apart from Fort Pitt in 1763, however, no other cases of the deliberate use of smallpox against Indians have been recorded." [8] Doug Weller talk 13:53, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
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What about mentioning the alleged use of the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a biowarfare lab with intent to use COVID-19 to silence the protests in Hong Kong? 24.220.61.241 ( talk) 23:30, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
"The earliest documented incident of the intention to use biological weapons is recorded in Hittite texts of 1500–1200 BCE, in which victims of tularemia were driven into enemy lands, causing an epidemic.[citation needed] "
Probably a good citation is https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2007.03.012 I can't read the whole text, but the summary is already to the point.
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I was offered a "black Ph.D." at the Navy's biological warfare laboratory in Alameda, Ca in the summer of 1975, more than a year after the Biological Weapons Convention was signed. I toured the lab, but declined the offer. I have searched in vain for the past 45 years to find any evidence of the lab's existence. The lab was in a large wood frame building with a typical home-style front door. However, it was under negative pressure and the lab's air exited via a torch. The active work area of the lab was entirely contained within plexiglass glove boxes with double-door autoclaves at both ends. The ceiling was sufficiently high such that another area of the lab housed what looked like a common, farm grain storage silo constructed of galvanized metal. I was told this was used to suspend anthrax spores, and ports in the silo accommodated animal cages. I was shown a petri dish container which consisted of two metal halves and was told it could only be opened by a machine. The lab was completely empty when I toured, except for the director who commented that he had some concern for me being in the lab without an anthrax vaccination. He was also somewhat miffed that I did not recognize his name, saying: "How soon people forget". For that reason I have tried to search names for some of the founding men in microbial molecular biology. The spellings I have used include, "Demereck" , "Dimick", "Demeritz", and various other similar sounding names. I still do not know who he was. It is my belief this installation might have been involved in Operation Sea-Spray, a 1950 U.S. Navy secret experiment in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco Bay Area. I made no agreements nor signed any documents concerning disclosure of what I saw on this lab tour. Charles Juvon ( talk) 17:28, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
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The article states "Although the Assyrians knew of ergot, a parasitic fungus of rye which produces ergotism when ingested, there is no evidence that they poisoned enemy wells with the fungus, as has been claimed." There is no source for this, begging the question "who claims they did?" However, thinking that editor may have meant for the reference for the next statement, (about the Scythians), to apply, I checked it out. That source (Croddy, Eric; Perez-Armendariz, Clarissa; Hart, John (2002). Chemical and biological warfare : a comprehensive survey for the concerned citizen. Copernicus Books. p. 219. ISBN 0387950761.) does cover this on page 214, but only to say that the Assyrians did poison the wells: "In the sixth century B.C., the Assyrians put rye ergot fungus in the water wells of their enemies. While the actual effects of using ergot (wheat rust) in such a manner are not clear, the intent was probably to inflict damage upon their enemies' agriculture." Since the editor considers this source adequate for the statement about the Scythians and Romans, I'm going to change the bit about the Assyrians to match the source. alacarte ( talk) 20:59, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
Which source says that "germ warfare" is a valid name for biological warfare? 2402:800:6310:BC3E:F8FE:DE98:65C3:592D ( talk) 00:49, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
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I removed the yellow rain section, because it was chemical, not biological warfare.
--- Why the Vatican is on the list of countries that once had Biological Weapons? Why have tried to check the sources but they lead me to websites that do not exist anymore.
I believe the following diseases are likely to be considered for use as biological weapons
tularemia, brucellosis, Q. fever, VEE, SEB, ricin, botulism toxin, mycotoxins
May you explain why you do think they should not ?
Besides, why did you remove low visibility, high potency, accessibility, and easy delivery, these are important
wikipedia:pages needing attention reckons this should be watched for NPOV - but I think it's probably ok at the mo. Opinions? Martin
Removed since this doesn't have much to do with bioweapons....
New technologies such as genetics, proteomics, molecular engineering, artificial intelligence and robotics led to new concerns. Robotics and (limited) artificial intelligence have been used in war, in particular by the United States. Proteomics and genetics have both been used in research into new chemical and biological weapons - again, the US has led the way here, researching "crowd control" chemical weapons that are permitted under the relevant treaties, and also pursuing "defensive" research into biological weapons. Molecular engineering has yet to be used in warfare, but has yet to be used in anything besides research into molecular engineering.
Supported by these concerns, some claim "NBC" weapons should now include genetic, proteomic, robotic and AI threats as well.
For example, one concern met with each of the "NBC" types is that the different treaties applicable had legal loopholes, due to confusion about the line between chemical and biological weapons (e.g. prions which are not organisms but simple single-molecule proteins, and could thereby be considered either chemical or biological), and the spread of "dual use" technology through commercial channels that could easily be put to military use.
Another concern was that most "NBC" treaties predated the ability to DNA-sequence and genetically modify biological entities (to be, make or carry poisonous substances, virus or prion), e.g. altering the well-understood e. coli bacterium to generate prions). [1]
Some of these technologies could have impacts far beyond a single generation of the human species in one place on Earth, and so are generally considered to be wholly inappropriate for conflict between nation-states. The only use of such weapons seems to be threatening human extinction (as North Korea began to do starting early in 2003) or mutual assured destruction of an opponent who attacks first - perhaps including other populations innocent in the conflict.
Miniaturization, mastery of genomes and proteomes, and adaptive software, all seem to have the potential to be combined to create pseudo-life-forms that may compete successfully with natural life. Indeed, some scientists in the artificial life field believe it is desirable to do so. The dangers of these technologies in combination, and of loss of human control over biological or robotic runaways, is a major reason that the United Nations seek to control their spread, especially to non-state actors such as terrorist groups, that typically have no population to defend, and so can be quite reckless, and are not concerned with the threat of retaliation against a nation.
So how did the election turn out? -- Andrew 20:30, Apr 28, 2004 (UTC)
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This is disputed, see smallpox. Ellsworth 23:58, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Dropped this sentence:
This is in conflict with the smallpox article - the French and Indian war began in 1756, and smallpox was certainly not "unknown in North America" before then. Ellsworth 16:11, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
From article on
Pontiac's Rebellion: On 24 June 1763, in a now infamous incident, the commander of Fort Pitt gave representatives of the besieging Delawares two blankets that had been exposed to smallpox, in hopes of spreading the disease to the Indians in order to end the siege. Modern polemical accounts of Indian/white relations often cite this incident as an example of genocide. However, although Indians in the area did contract smallpox, it is impossible to verify how many people (if any) contracted the disease as a result of the Fort Pitt incident; the disease was already in the area and may have easily reached the Indians through other vectors. Jeffrey Amherst’s name is usually associated with this incident, although the first record of Amherst suggesting trying to spread smallpox to the Indians is from the summer of 1764, after the commander at Fort Pitt had already made this attempt, apparently on his own initiative.
A number of discussion pages in Wiki have been debating this controversial issue. See Kevin Myers' recent edit on the Smallpox article. The paragraph above contains much the same information. WBardwin 04:47, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I really think pulmonary anthrax is an ideal choice for use in biological attacks. It is airborn and can have a mortallity rate of up to 90%! Biological weapons can be/are very scary. Subphreeky 17 July 2005
Read "Biohazard" and "Hot Zone" some time. The really scary agents are in the filovirus catigory and form hemorragic fevers. Militarizing Anthrax to acheave the particulate sizes and dispersion techneques in order to sufficently attack a large civilian population is a massive endevor. Spreading a readily transmissable virus like hemorragic Dengue Fever or Ebola Zaire is much more "low tech" and involves fewer rescorces and personnel. -NBCD Chief
Anthrax was a bust for the US biological program. In the end no one could say the ID50 was 8,000 spores/person, 23,000 spores/person, 50,000 spores/person, or 100,000 spores/person. At least with tularemia there was reproducible evidence with human test subjects. The value of anthrax was extrapolated from experiments with monkeys and a handfull of accidental cases. Even after the incident in Sverdlovsk and the Anthrax letters of 2001 the question of anthrax infectivity appears poor at best. A WWII memo on how no one had become infected by anthrax at the pilot plant, QA department or Vigo plant with anything more than a cutaneous sore left a question of the value of anthrax with researchers. Reid Kirby 20:35 S, 27AP08. —Preceding comment was added at 01:35, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello
I am considering compiling a list of Bio war incidents, I am looking for input on the proper name:
There could be several other choices, let me know what you think.
Yummy123 20:59, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
Improved the section on "attacking plants" to be more encyclopedic (covers both herbicides and plant diseases) and related it to actual biological warfare efforts. -- Reid Kirby 16:37, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
I am wondering why there isn't even a casual mention of biowarfare theories involving the AIDS virus inside this article? Did you know nobel prize winning scientists have alleged that and there is a significant amount of information available? Would it be ok with the regular editors of this article if info on AIDS and biowarfare theories is added to this article? zen master T 04:45, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
can you be more specific- which nobel laureate claimed HIV and bio-warfare connection? Was it really a scientist? The only nobel laureate I can think of claiming this would be mr. Nelson Mandela Xmort 03:45, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
No one watches this talk page? zen master T 01:06, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
What does this mean? Did Nixon create the policy? This is a bad sentence. I'm not changing it because I'm not sure what it means to say exactly. Someone who does please rewrite it. If no one changes it, I'll just delete the reference to Nixon, since it doesn't make any sense as written. Torgo 01:54, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
nixon was an idiot anyways most peopel think, & we know he lies, that sentence was likely made public for better USA image, & to throw others off from bioweapons research themselves, & if anybody would hav used bioweapons in a jam, even the nasty primitiv ones of back then... it mighta been Nixon!
A link to the following article should be added: ...Even though it must be expected that the figures given in this report might be exaggerated, the fact that Polish underground fighters caused some casualties to the German occupational forces is indubitable, and even though such guerilla warfare against an occupational power is illegal, one cannot blame the Poles morally for waging such a war against what they conceived to be an illegal occupation. What is of interest here is the penultimate page of this report, which lists under "3. Activities of retaliation":
"Typhoid fever microbes and typhoid fever lice: in a few hundred cases"
Aspects of Biological Warfare During World War II -- contributed unsigned by 198.54.202.82 (11:54, 15 June 2006)
Typhus and Typhoid fever are two distinct diseases, but this article doesn't seem to understand the difference. The quotation above accurately reflects the web site quoted. I would say it is not dependable enough, without reference to another source. WBardwin 21:48, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
The sentence that ends in "...though it is generally believed that such weapons were never used." Should be backed up by a source proving the most believe that such weapons where never used by the U.S. military. Also the sentence "This view was challenged by China and North Korea, who accused the United States of large-scale field testing of biological weapons against them during the Korean War (1950-1953)." is not completely accurate as more then just China and North Korea made such a claim. Their was even those in the US who claimed this also such as reporter named John W. Powell who supported the bio-weapons use claim in an article he wrote in the early 1950's, which led to the government attempting unsuccessfully to try him for sedition [2]. The statement "Their accusation is substantiated by Stephen Endicott and Edward Hagerman in 'The United States and Biological Warfare: secrets of the early Cold War and Korea' (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1998)." seems to contradict the claim that it is widely believed that such weapons were never used. Is this section trying to claim the majority of people live in denial over the claim despite it being substantiated or maybe the book is not believed by most to substantiate the claim to the degree the statement seems to claim? -- Cab88 18:48, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Could use votes to save this article, thanks MapleTree 22:18, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
Some of the agents listed above this heading are also naturally occuring. Anthrax, for example, occurs naturally in sheeps wool. Having this listing below the list of possible agents gives the idea that those agents not on the sub list are not naturally occuring. Ideas on how to clean this up? Dwade21 22:34, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
However, new information has surfaced within the last decade, which alleges a more active Japanese usage. For example, firsthand accounts testify the Japanese infected civilians through the distribution of plagued foodstuffs, such as dumplings and vegetables. There are also reports of contaminated water supplies. Such estimates report over 580,000 victims, largely due to plague and cholera outbreaks. In addition, repeated seasonal outbreaks after the conclusion of the war bring the death toll much higher.
This section either needs to be footnoted with a reference to a credible source or else removed. It is irresponsible to make revisionist claims of "estimates" of over half a million people being killed and then not even bother to include a source for such dramatic claims. It's one thing to neglect references to facts that can be corroborated by checking any of the standard works on the subject but this is obviously well outside the scope of such cases.
UPDATE: Added the "weasel" tag to flag the section in question. Lexington50 08:25, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
I was reading through the intro to the topic when I noticed that both Chemical Weapons Convention and Biological Weapons convention are used. "Note that using nonliving toxic products, even if produced by living organisms (e.g., toxins), is considered chemical warfare under the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention." I think this helps, but shouldn't Chemical Weapons Convention be a link like the BWC? It seems that if someone were researching toxins produced by organisms and they went here, they would be further interested in the CWC. Ninjablu 20:40, 23 May 2007 (UTC) ninjablu
I think the first paragraph of this section should be changed. It's spoken in a first person US perspective rather than the encyclopedic perspectve that should be used on wikipedia. Just a thought maybe: I'm most likely talking utter rubish! Anonymous 20:34, 19 october 2007 (GMT)
There really needs to be independent sourcing about both biological agent codes and weapon designations. I'm willing to look at verifiable evidence, but, for example, the agent codes, in several cases, are different from what I worked with in the seventies.
The "Big Five" also needs more sourcing, and a new stub article isn't quite enough. While the one citation does appear to be from a reputable source, from my personal experience, if I quote something that I wrote in a peer-reviewed article, I still try to add separate confirming sources. Howard C. Berkowitz ( talk) 15:39, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
The various diseases mentioned as being considered for weaponization are followed respectively by brackets containing letters. What do these signify? 78.147.167.156 ( talk) 12:50, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
The letters behind the biologicals mentioned refer to the military symbol assigned by the United States. These symbols were assigned during the Cold War period, and under went changes for security, formulation, and realignment. A more complete list is Biological_agent.
During the Cold War a military plan would state something like: "B-47 sotries with SUU-24/B dispensers loaded with M143/UL." That is, a B-47 Stratojet medium bomber had a SUU-24/B bomblet dispenser in its bombay. The bomblet dispenser carried M143 spherical bursting bomblets filled with Biological Agent UL - UL being the military symbol for tularemia (lethal). Later UL was changed to SR, and an incapacitating variant of tularemia was standardized as agent JT. UL2 would mean the agent was a dry-type, freeze dried preperation milled to a consistency similar to talc powder. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reid Kirby ( talk • contribs) 18:06, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Instead of linking to a video game article, why not link to List of fictional diseases? Of course, they're all not based on BW, but in my own opinion, it's better than linking to a specific list of fictional viruses? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.7.141.45 ( talk) 02:06, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
-- IvoShandor ( talk) 22:33, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
Jews poisoning wells - that's a quite old antisemitic idéé fixe. And the sources lead to nowhere. I've googled a bit about the "event" and basically ended up on Palestinian or plainly antisemitic sites. This passage should be deleted. -- Justdont ( talk) 00:01, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
It is stated in the article that ingesting ergot has similar effects to LSD. Lysergic acid diethylamide can be produced from compounds in the ergot fungus, but ingesting the fungus itself produces ergotism, which includes attack of gangrene due to vasoconstriction, convulsions, diarrhea, etc. The effects are not like LSD except that one may hallucinate while poisoned. This may have more to do with the fact that you are dying a severe and horrible death than intoxication effects produced by the alkaloids. I am editing the article to reflect the fact that ergot induces ergotism, not LSD-like effects. I doubt the Assyrians would have wanted to poison a water supply with something that would have an extremely low toxicity (like LSD), but instead want to kill and severely maim their targets with the fungus.
Edits: Signed in and resigned this post to include my username, edited a mistake I made in this post. psycherhexic ( talk) 18:02, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (= mad-cow disease), Anthrax, Swine influenza, Avian influenza (= bird flu), AIDS, SARS, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and Ebola. Böri ( talk) 12:52, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
does anybody know where the documents are that relate to wrapping virulence & toxicity factors into shells from virus or bacteria that arent typicly used for weapons??? such as the BioPen bypass agents for example used & tailored to target all adult males in any given area but not detected with standard equipment? and does anybody know if the CDC regulates say internal components of smallpox virus... or just the shell??? what exactly defines 'smallpox' under current US law?
nicholas —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.115.224.244 ( talk) 01:53, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
I've found sources for all but William C. Patrick III, Yuri Ovchinnikov and Richard Preston so they will still need sources found for them. If this can't be done they'll have to be removed. Thanks. --
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The NLM Profiles in Science website for a now deceased geneticist and Nobel Lauriate holds several hundred pieces of correspondence, including correspondence showing contractual research at Camp Detrick to do biological warfare. I wish to add the name of this person to the list of biological warfare weaponeers. Is this reasonable? Shadow600 ( talk) 03:50, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
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This is very interesting, and may deserve a mention. When news agencies show police firing water cannons against protestors, and then the protestors respond with violence, it may not be "just water" that they're being attacked with:
http://www.voanews.com/content/yemen-experiments-with-right-to-bear-arms--133255713/173303.html
"As the student protestors in Change Square rose from Juma prayers on March 18, armored vehicles of Yemeni security forces began spraying the demonstrators with sewage water. Billows of smoke rose from tires set on fire. Finally, shots rang out and students began to fall down."
Badon ( talk) 02:25, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
The section "List of BW institutions, programs, projects and sites by country" would benefit from separating out defensive or research type programs, from current active production or stockpiling. -- Beland ( talk) 18:23, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vNW9meqny4&t=33m02s — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.24.140 ( talk) 02:31, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
The very first sentence is "It has been argued that rational people would never use biological weapons offensively". This is obviously POV. Shouldn't that go in another subsection like "controversy" or "opposition"? Dzylon ( talk) 14:43, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
More than 50% of that is devoted to some test(s) in Okinawa which may not even have happened (there is no official acknowledgement as of today.) I think it's WP:UNDUE and COATRACK in a top-level article like this. What about the Soviet program, etc. A good, balanced source for an overview article like is "Anticrop Biological Weapons Programs" by Simon M. Whitby in Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rózsa, and Malcolm Dando (eds.), Deadly Cultures: BiologicalWeapons since 1945. 86.121.18.17 ( talk) 20:57, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
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Although categorized as such in treaties, this is technically a misnomer since bio-warfare does not destroy any property at all and in some cases it may be the main reason for deploying these weapons. Mass murder would be a more appropriate term. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.169.42.228 ( talk) 17:46, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Mass Destruction is used here in contrary to destroying a single person. WMD are called so because these would kill people in a large territory instead of a single person or a relatively small group being aimed at. Mass is meant as "a crowd of people" and not as "a big amount of material".( 80.98.114.70 ( talk) 19:47, 13 February 2016 (UTC)).
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Germ warfare in German occupied territories: https://archive.org/details/ReportFromPolishSecretArmyOfPolandTyphoidFeverAsAWeaponBiologicalWeaponDuringWorldWarTwo1943
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During the 1948 War, Acre was besieged by Israeli forces. A typhoid fever outbreak occurred in Acre at this time. According to the Red Cross archives, an emergency meeting held at the Lebanese Red Cross hospital in Acre concluded that the infection was water borne, not due to crowded or unhygienic conditions.[36] Brigadier Beveridge, chief of the British medical services, Colonel Bonnet of the British Army, and delegates of Red Cross were present in this meeting. Beveridge proclaimed at the time that "Nothing like that ever happened in Palestine". According to anti-Zionist historian Ilan Pappé, even the guarded language of Red Cross reports points to outside poisoning as the sole explanation of the outbreak-- from the wiki. 144.41.3.22 ( talk) 10:00, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
"A British officer sent 300 smallpox-infected blankets to the rebel plantations during the Yorktown campaign of 1781, and the British may deliberately have used smallpox as a weapon of war in other instances.38 Apart from Fort Pitt in 1763, however, no other cases of the deliberate use of smallpox against Indians have been recorded." [8] Doug Weller talk 13:53, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
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What about mentioning the alleged use of the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a biowarfare lab with intent to use COVID-19 to silence the protests in Hong Kong? 24.220.61.241 ( talk) 23:30, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
"The earliest documented incident of the intention to use biological weapons is recorded in Hittite texts of 1500–1200 BCE, in which victims of tularemia were driven into enemy lands, causing an epidemic.[citation needed] "
Probably a good citation is https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2007.03.012 I can't read the whole text, but the summary is already to the point.
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I was offered a "black Ph.D." at the Navy's biological warfare laboratory in Alameda, Ca in the summer of 1975, more than a year after the Biological Weapons Convention was signed. I toured the lab, but declined the offer. I have searched in vain for the past 45 years to find any evidence of the lab's existence. The lab was in a large wood frame building with a typical home-style front door. However, it was under negative pressure and the lab's air exited via a torch. The active work area of the lab was entirely contained within plexiglass glove boxes with double-door autoclaves at both ends. The ceiling was sufficiently high such that another area of the lab housed what looked like a common, farm grain storage silo constructed of galvanized metal. I was told this was used to suspend anthrax spores, and ports in the silo accommodated animal cages. I was shown a petri dish container which consisted of two metal halves and was told it could only be opened by a machine. The lab was completely empty when I toured, except for the director who commented that he had some concern for me being in the lab without an anthrax vaccination. He was also somewhat miffed that I did not recognize his name, saying: "How soon people forget". For that reason I have tried to search names for some of the founding men in microbial molecular biology. The spellings I have used include, "Demereck" , "Dimick", "Demeritz", and various other similar sounding names. I still do not know who he was. It is my belief this installation might have been involved in Operation Sea-Spray, a 1950 U.S. Navy secret experiment in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco Bay Area. I made no agreements nor signed any documents concerning disclosure of what I saw on this lab tour. Charles Juvon ( talk) 17:28, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
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The article states "Although the Assyrians knew of ergot, a parasitic fungus of rye which produces ergotism when ingested, there is no evidence that they poisoned enemy wells with the fungus, as has been claimed." There is no source for this, begging the question "who claims they did?" However, thinking that editor may have meant for the reference for the next statement, (about the Scythians), to apply, I checked it out. That source (Croddy, Eric; Perez-Armendariz, Clarissa; Hart, John (2002). Chemical and biological warfare : a comprehensive survey for the concerned citizen. Copernicus Books. p. 219. ISBN 0387950761.) does cover this on page 214, but only to say that the Assyrians did poison the wells: "In the sixth century B.C., the Assyrians put rye ergot fungus in the water wells of their enemies. While the actual effects of using ergot (wheat rust) in such a manner are not clear, the intent was probably to inflict damage upon their enemies' agriculture." Since the editor considers this source adequate for the statement about the Scythians and Romans, I'm going to change the bit about the Assyrians to match the source. alacarte ( talk) 20:59, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
Which source says that "germ warfare" is a valid name for biological warfare? 2402:800:6310:BC3E:F8FE:DE98:65C3:592D ( talk) 00:49, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
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