Secret documents bring it back to the fore What biological weapons threaten humanity with extinction?

For decades, wars have taken various forms, not excluding any means of confronting the threat of opponents or attacking them. Similar to conventional wars that use military equipment, biological weapons have emerged as a deadly threat to the security of peoples, and the international community has tried to ban it, but to no avail.

The Russian Federal Security Service recently revealed secret documents claiming that Japan planned at the end of World War II, as a fighting ally alongside Germany, to launch a biological attack against the Soviet Union, to end the battle, violating the mutual neutrality agreement concluded in Moscow in April 1941 .

The documents included interrogation records of Japanese military leaders and prisoners, who reported during the interrogation and interrogation sessions that the army leaders in 1944 issued orders to increase the production of bacteriological weapons. In the meantime, biological tests and experiments were carried out on Korean, Chinese and Soviet prisoners of war, who were exposed to plague bacteria, anthrax, cholera, typhoid and gas gangrene, to death.

Moscow claims that the aim was to work on developing a biological bomb that would resolve battles and prepare the enemy and enemy during wars.

These secret documents, which were revealed, regardless of their authenticity, have revived the debate about the threats of biological weapons throughout history, to the security of peoples in the world. To this day, it still represents an obsession and concern for some of them, especially since it does not cost countries much to develop it into a lethal weapon of war.

Poor man bomb

Biological warfare, germ or bacterial warfare, is the use of bacteria or viruses that spread quickly in a hidden and extremely harmful way, and cannot be confronted, as they are detected after they invade the body completely and lethally, especially since there is a large group of bacteria and viruses genetically modified to resist antibiotics, which They can also be used as biological weapons.

Therefore, biological weapons were classified as weapons of mass destruction. Although it is the least expensive and can be developed through a specialized human cadre that uses simple equipment in a small laboratory, it is more destructive than conventional weapons, and poor countries can resort to them, which, due to their poor economic conditions, cannot manufacture heavy military equipment, in order to change the equation of some wars or launch an attack Lethal to opponents, and covertly.

Experts have dubbed it the "poor man's bomb." Official estimates and statistics put the cost at $2,000 per square kilometer with conventional weapons, $800 with nuclear weapons, $600 with nerve gas weapons, and $1 with biological weapons. it is not considered a new weapon on the international scene, as the origins of its use go back to the beginnings of the First World War.

Ancient historical weapon

The book “Chemical and Biological War” revealed the accusation of Germany, during the period of the First World War, of spreading agricultural microbes that spoiled agricultural crops in Russian Finland, and poisoned horses throughout the Russian lands, and in addition to all this, sent anthrax by mail, to many officials Governments in Argentina and the United States.

For its part, the United Kingdom was accused, in historical sources and books, as one of these powers that used chemical weapons to liquidate their opponents and extend their expansion. For between 1763 and 1766, the British Army distributed aid parcels to the inhabitants of American tribes, containing smallpox, causing a terrible extermination of half a million Americans, called the Pontiac Extermination.

After World War I, research and development projects related to biological weapons took place in all major countries. Bacteriological committees were set up to develop a policy for biological warfare, or to develop plans to repel a potential bacterial attack. Among these countries are France, Germany, Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and others.

These weapons developed, especially after the Second World War, and expert sources and reports revealed the use of chlorine and phosgene, in addition to the use of nervous agents such as tabun, cholinesterase inhibitor, anthrax and epidemic bombs. Some of them were employed in the Vietnam War during the 1970s.

In turn, detailed reports of the Red Cross in Palestine, and international suspicions, revealed that the Israeli occupation state used salmonella bacteria in the water supply to the city of Acre, which caused an outbreak of typhoid among the population, during the 1948 war.

Is it stopped by international conventions?

Although it accepted the prohibition of biological weapons after the First World War, the international community re-emphasized this between 1972 and 1993, after some countries violated conventions and warnings, and continued to develop their research in this field, and seek to possess this hidden and deadly weapon.

The United States, Britain and the Soviet Union oversaw the conclusion of an agreement in 1972 to ban the development, transfer, production and stockpiling of these weapons. The agreement entered into force in 1975 with 150 countries signing it and 140 countries fully acceding to it.

As media and media sources reported a sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway network, which killed many and resulted in thousands of injuries. The United States, in turn, was a victim of this weapon, as in 2001 it received letters containing anthrax from officials and important figures.

In the same context, the book of the Soviet biological weapons program revealed Russia's development of research into bacterial weapons, under the cover of super-secretiveness, in which more than 65,000 scientists and technicians participated. The program lasted for a long time and did not end until microbiologist Vladimir Pasechnik fled to Britain in October 1989.

Although some countries and experts do not rule out that Corona is a modern biological weapon, its consequences and the destruction it caused extended on a global level without excluding a country, and humanity shared a common destiny, which may refute these allegations.(trtarab)