The Native Americans greatly outnumbered the British and were suspected of being on the side of the French. The single most important treaty in the control of biological warfare agents is probably the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which has now been ratified by 100 countries. The U.S. proposed the protocol and signed it on June 17, 1925. However, it was not ratified by the Senate until 1974. The treaty limits the use of chemical and biological agents in war, and most signatories reserve the right to use such weapons in retaliation.
Biological agents are powerful weapons that can severely weaken a entire nation.
Any country that would use mass first strike biological weapons would be ensuring their own doom. They would meet with such political and military retaliation that they would be destroyed even before all their victims would die, although an individual or a small terrorist group could release biological agents and not be retaliated against with such severity. Bibliography Slavin, Barbara. Poor man s nukes . Biological Warfare .