Biological Warfare

Humanity still faces a significant risk of disaster from pathogens, either deliberately engineered or released by accident. But the Biological Weapons Convention has for the most part been adhered to, and humanity is significantly safer as a result - Kelsey Piper

Biological Warfare
Biological Warfare

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The man who stopped America’s biological weapons program

Today, the use of biological weapons is almost unthinkable. But this wasn’t true in the 1960s, when the US government stockpiled such weapons and work continued on developing new, more effective variants. There was an agreement about the use of biological weapons — the post-World War I Geneva Protocol, which also covered chemical weapons — but the United States wasn’t among the signatories to it.

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