The Iraqi Biological Weapons Program - Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons Since 1945 - page 183

Table 8.3 Iraqi biological warfare weapons

Delivery means Comment

Al-Hussein warheads 25 BW warheads declared by Iraq: 16

filled with botulinum toxin; 5 filled
with anthrax; 4 filled with aflatoxin.
Numbers later adjusted by Iraq to 5,
16, and 4, respectively

R-400 aerial bombs Iraq declared 200 produced: 100 filled

with botulinum toxin; 50 filled with
anthrax; 7 filled with aflatoxin.
Numbers impossible to verify

Aircraft drop tanks: Mirage F-1 Plan for 12 modified drop tanks; Iraq

claimed for use with anthrax and
then said with botulinum toxin

Pilotless aircraft project: MiG-21 with drop
tank

FFCD account very brief

Aerosol generators/helicopter spray system 12 devices produced;

Successful field testing of Bacillus
subtilis in Aug. 1988

Aerosol generator system for drones Possibility that such a system was made

122-millimeter rocket warheads Successful trials and recommended for

agents A, B, C, and D

155-millimeter artillery shell Four used in trial with ricin

LD-250 aerial bomb Static trials of agent dispersion

conducted in 1988

Fragmentation weapons Said to have been trialed with

Clostridium perfringens

declarations. Of particular relevance is the absence of an adequate ac-
count of the military involvement in the program and thus of the military
objectives and requirements for such weapons. UNSCOM points out that
the contention by Iraq that its Ministry of Defense remained wholly un-
aware of Iraq's BW program is implausible, since Iraq acknowledges that
the MOD was involved from 1983 to 1987. It is unlikely that the program
was not visible to senior MOD personnel after 1987, as programming for
the adoption of BW would have been part of the strategic planning of
Iraq's military development along with its nuclear and chemical capabili-
ties. Indeed, UNSCOM has argued that such strategic planning would