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M115 bomb
The M115 anti-crop bomb, also known as the feather bomb or the E73 bomb,〔 was a U.S. biological cluster bomb designed to deliver wheat stem rust.
==History==
Mass production of the M115 bomb began in 1953.〔 The weapon was a modified M16A1 cluster bomb, which was normally used to distribute airborne leaflet propaganda or fragmentation weapons.〔Russell, Alan and Vogler, John. ''The International Politics of Biotechnology: Investigating Global Futures'', ((Google Books )), Manchester University Press, 2000, pp. 173-74, (ISBN 0719058686).〕 The U.S. Air Force first pointed out the need for an anti-crop weapon in September 1947. In October 1950 the Air Force began procuring 4,800 M115 bombs.〔Wheelis, Mark, et al. ''Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons Since 1945'', ((Google Books )), Harvard University Press, 2006, pp. 217-18, (ISBN 0674016998).〕 By 1954, with the biological agents causing wheat and rye rust standardized in laboratory culture, the U.S. Air Force prepared to transfer the agent to some 4,800 of the M115s.〔 The deployment of the M115 represented the United States' first, though limited, anti-crop biological warfare (BW) capability.〔Whitby, Simon M. ''Biological Warfare Against Crops'', ((Google Books )), Macmillan, 2002, pp. 156-57, (ISBN 0333920856).〕 Though the weapon was tested at Fort Detrick, in Frederick, Maryland, it was never used in combat.〔Link, Kurt. ''Understanding New, Resurgent, and Resistant Diseases: How Man and Globalization Create and Spread Illness'', ((Google Books )), Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, p. 90, (ISBN 0275991261).〕
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