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Chemical and Biological Weapons

 

            
             In methods of war, the use of biological and chemical weapons has been very controversial. Biological and chemical weapons have been effective during war, civil conflicts, and riots. These weapons have served an important role in the history of the world. However, biological and chemical weapons have been proven to be harmful, and the abusive effects on innocent people demonstrated the destructive nature of such weapons. Biological and chemical weapons should not be used since they have been proven to be harmful through the government's attempts to stop biological and chemical warfare, the observed effects and dangers, and the military use throughout the years.
             The government has tried many times to abolish the use of biological and chemical weapons. The earliest try was after World War I. Sebastian Bulfour quotes, "European Powers agreed to reaffirm the principle that chemical and bacteriological weapons should be excluded from all future conflicts"(2). The next major push to ban these weapons would be in 1969, when the Nixon Administration, with the approval of the Defensive Department, which stated that biological weapons do not have military usefulness. They also, forever abandoned their development, production, and stock piling, in the USA, and announced that the U.S. would try to dismantle its biological weapons program. Also, in 1972, the Soviet Union tried by urging for a more compromising treaty including restriction on chemical weapons, and ended its opposition to a separate biological weapons treaty. ("Oxford", 109).
             Oxford University Press quotes:.
             "In 1975, the U.S. Senate ratified the Biological Weapons Convention. The Biological Weapons Convention prohibits the development, production, storage, and transfer of these weapons. The Convention establishes a new international agency, The Organization for the Prohibition of Biological and Chemical Weapons. By 1987, 110 nations had ratified the Biological and Chemical Weapons Convention and an additional 25 nations had signed but did not yet ratified it" (109).


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