biological warfare

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biological warfare

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  1. uncountable The use of any harmful organism (such as a bacterium or virus) as a weapon of war. At least the United States Government took the suggestion seriously enough to deny emphatically that it controlled any satellites designed to conduct biological warfare directly upon human beings. One or two minor nations, whom no one suspected of controlling any satellites at all, hastened to make

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noun use of an organism as a weapon of war

Españolguerra biológica
中文細菌戰 /细菌战 xìjūnzhàn
Françaisguerre biologique
Deutschbiologische Kriegsführung
Italianoguerra biologica
Românărăzboi biologic
Русскийбиологи́ческая во́йна biologíčeskaja vójna

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@misc{biological_warfare_2026,
  title = {biological warfare},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/biological%20warfare},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}