The Threat of Biological WarfareAn incipient biological arms race between the superpowers could make biological warfare more likely than it is today

摘要: B iological warfare has long been abhorred and seldom practiced. Indeed, in becoming parties to the Geneva Protocol of 1925, more than 100 nations have agreed not wage biological warfare; recently, Bacteriological Toxin Weapon Convention 1972, almost that many even possess means such warfare. Nevertheless, specter remains before us, now adoption nuclear as a strategy lowered depth "acceptable" societal depravity, perhaps also because emerging laboratory techniques permit development weapons militarily useful those available today. In this paper I define outline range potentially weapons, their targets, sparse history use. consider likelihood warfare's occurring future its potential impact on humans nature.