Yet, the United States remains in total compliance with its commitments under the Biological Weapons Convention.
The U.S. must also avoid the present temptation to repeat the mistakes inherent in the Biological Weapons Convention.
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Further, we supported the implementation of actions called for by the Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference in December 2011.
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For years, American policy makers have treated the growing menace of noncompliance with the Biological Weapons Convention with benign neglect.
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Hence, to abide by the Biological Weapons Convention they do not need this protocol that is merely supposed to strengthen the convention.
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In 1972, the U.S. and virtually every other civilized nation signed the Biological Weapons Convention, which prohibits the development, stockpiling and use of biological arms.
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This scuttled treaty is known as the BWC Protocol, since it purports to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972 that bans the use, stockpiling and production of bacteriological weapons.
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To paraphrase the English wit, Samuel Johnson, who described second marriages as "the triumph of hope over experience, " it was absolutely predictable that prohibitions imposed by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and the 1989 Chemical Weapons Convention would be no more successful in creating universally binding international "norms" than was the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, which was supposed to ban all war.
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The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention was supposed to preclude the production or stockpiling of agents for biological warfare (BW).
The use of chemical and biological weapons are banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
The target this time was a draft scheme to enforce the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC), a 1972 treaty banning germ war.
The Bush administration also said it considered the 1972 convention on biological weapons flawed beyond repair, though it has been ratified by 143 countries, including the United States.
The Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits the production, stockpiling and use of chemical and biological weapons.
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