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Biological Weapons: A Reawakened Concern |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / LEASHING THE DOGS OF WAR |
| Author: Milton Leitenberg |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1999 |
| Size: 5,811 Words, 37,940 Characters |
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Biological weapons, along with nuclear and chemical weapons, are the three systems designated as weapons of mass destruction (WMD). (A biological weapon is any disease-producing agent used to kill or injure people, animals, or plants.) The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), which bans the development, production and stockpiling of BW, as well as BW research for offensive purposes, was signed on April 10, 1972. The treaty came into force on March 16, 1975, when the United States, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom jointly deposited their instruments of ratification for the convention. Contrary to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of 1968 (NPT), in the BTWC no preferred group of countries would retain weapons. Biological weapons were to be prohibited to all nations forever, both...
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...rced is an important adjunct, as it would demonstrate the international intention to be just as forceful in observing a BTWC verification mechanism if and when that is achieved. In this regard, although the U.S. Senate ratified the CWC in April 1997, it still has not passed the implementing legislation, which is required for every such treaty to become operative within a participating nation.
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