And there's only two countries, the U.S. and the former Soviet Union, that had major efforts on trying to create biological warfare agents.

世界上只有美国和前苏联曾经花大力气研究生物武器。

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Last month, Chad Mirkin 's Northwestern spinoff Nanosphere entered into a development contract with the U.S. Government Technical Support Working Group to use Nanosphere's proprietary biomolecular detection system (using gold nanoparticles) for detection of biological warfare agents like anthrax.

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The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention was supposed to preclude the production or stockpiling of agents for biological warfare (BW).

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The relative difficulties of using agents of biological warfare effectively and the ease and effectiveness of alternatives (especially plain, old-fashioned explosives) argue against a massive expenditure of resources to counter bioterrorism.

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