The US Biological Weapons Program - Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons Since 1945 - page 37

Table 2.4 US BW Stockpile in 1970

Listed by Defense Secretary Laird in July 1970

Antipersonnel agents in liquid suspension
Lethal: none
Incapacitating
Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis
(VEE) virus

4,991 gallons

Coxiella burnetii (Q fever) 5,098 gallons

Total 10,089 gallons

Antipersonnel dried agents
Lethal
F. tularensis (rabbit fever) 804 pounds

B. anthracis (anthrax) 220 pounds

Incapacitating
VEE virus

334 pounds

Total 1,358 pounds

Filled munitions
M1 4,450 (toxin and simulant)

M2 71,696 (toxin, biological, and simulant)

M4 21,150 (biological and simulant)

M5 90 (simulant only)

M32 168 (biological and simulant)

Anticrop biological agents
Wheat rust

158,684 pounds

Rice blast 1,865 pounds

Total 160,549 pounds

Listed by DOD in September 1970

Liquid agents stored as frozen pellets (bulk)
Incapacitating
VEE 4,991 gallons

Q fever 5,098 gallons

Total 10,089 gallons