Biological Weapons : New Developments
Reports in June 2004 suggested that the United States were planning certain biological activities that some think could violate the Biological Weapons Convention. This could include developing and testing new and existing biological weapons agents. The work would come under the Homeland Security Departmant. It’s claimed that it would be purely for defensive reasons. However, Mark Wheelis, a professor of microbiology at the University of California-Davis is quoted as saying:“This is absolutely without any question what one would do to develop an offensive biological weapons capability. We’re going to develop new pathogens for various purposes. We’re going to develop new ways of packaging them, new ways of disseminating them. We’re going to harden them to environmental degradation. We’ll be prepared to go offensive at the drop of a hat if we so desire”.
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