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Iraq's Biological Weapons Program

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Foreign Suppliers to Iraq's Biological Weapons Program¹

Steps to Biological Weapons Acquisition²

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Notes:

1. This fact sheet includes only open-source accounts; there may be additional transactions that have not been reported.

2. Adapted from U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Technologies Underlying Weapons of Mass Destruction, (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, December 1993), p. 83.

Prepared by Michael Barletta and Christina Ellington, November 1998
© Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies.

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