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Cryrian efforts in this area progressed along two lines - One intended to attack enemy food supplies, particularly livestock, and another for sapient targets. The CDF ultimately developed a line of "Anthrax bombs" that would be used to spread the disease across livestock. In 1945, the weapon was tested on over 60 sheep which had been shipped to the island of Jelna, and successfully killed all its targets within days. Despite this, a lack of significant bomber aircraft meant that the delivery of biological agents would likely have relied heavily on more covert means.
The program soon began to face resistance from within the Special Materials Division itself, which reported that the weapons being developed were "Unlikely to offer any military value outside the realm of terror or desperation." Nonetheless, the powerful political support of the Tomorrow Ministry ensured that the program would continue to grow and develop until the White November Crisis of 1957. After the downfall of the Ministry, the Cryrian Government began to gradually shut the program down until it had been entirely dismantled in 1960
The CDF disclosed a sizable stockpile of weaponized biological agents ranging from anthrax, plague, tularemia, glanders, brucellosis, Q-fever, botulinum, and orthopoxviruses such as smallpox along with established production lines. The vast majority of these were destroyed along with all delivery systems. Limited samples are retained today under heavy restrictions for testing and research purposes. Some facilities in SIggeholm also remain active for similar purposes, and tightly controlled by the Special Materials Division.
==Major Installations==
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