Biological Warfare | The United States Should Reject the Biological Weapons Convention Protocol

In 2001 international negotiations to add a legally binding protocol—which would improve enforcement mechanisms— to the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) broke down, in large part because of U.S. objections. In the following viewpoint, excerpted from a 2002 speech in Japan, U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control and international security John R. Bolton argues that traditional arms control approaches are ineffective against biological weapons and that proposed additions to the BWC would have compromised America’s national security and business interests. He contends...

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