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.
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