Should the US Department of Defense eliminate all biological weapons & biological agents?

Question

This is for speech and debate:

Whereas: The United States renounced the use of biological weapons in 1973

Whereas: The US Army estimated that one thousand kilograms of sarin nerve gas aerosolized over an urban area on a clear, calm night would kill 3,000-8,000 people.

Whereras: One tenth of the amount of anthrax would be likely to result in the death of 1 to 3 million people, a toll of 200-600 times that in New York.

Whereas: The US maintains what is far and away the largest biological weapons defense program in the world.

Whereas: Even the greatest experts disagree on which specific activities are offensive and which can be classified as defensive. And the laxity of this interpretation has given rise to potential misunderstandings and opened doors to would-be biological weapons developers.

Let it be resolved by this student congress: That the United States Department of Defense will disarm and eliminate all biological weapons and stocks of biological agents.

Answer 1

Dumb.

We destroyed our offensive biological weapons over 30 years ago.

Now you are saying that we should _encourage_ somebody to attack us with biological weapons by removing all of our ability to protect ourselves from them?

BTW you have claimed that this has "opened doors to would-be biological weapons developers." Unless you can identify an example of this happening then you are making a false statement. (In other words: a lie.)

Answer 2

No speech or debate needed.
The US has renounced the use of biological weapons for over thirty years. Our military has zero stocks of biological weapons (pathogens or toxins). On the other hand, we have large quantities of nerve and blister agents stored throughout the U.S. However these stocks are old and are ALL being destroyed in accordance with the Chemical Weapons Convention ban our congress ratified in 1997.
We do maintain the abilitiy to use Nuclear Weapons (with Presidential authority) as well as employ tear gas and herbicides for defensive uses (clearing brush around FOBs, rescue down air crews, etc...).
Now just because we don't use them doesn't mean we are that naive to think that another country won't use them against us. Therefore we conduct research throughout the U.S. to keep pace with advance in bio and chemical engineering. Mainly done on college campuses. Not a big secret.

Answer 3

The US maintains a defense positure not offensive. the US does not maintain biological weapons. These rumors are on the same level as the USA did 911 too itself,

Answer 4

No. The U.S. has spent too much tax payers money on it. They may be better to cut the funding or reduce the production for the sake of peace.. but it has to be step by step... and long ones. They should not eliminate them at once because it may adverse the environment, expensive, and nowhere to dump them. I assume your question suggesting that the U.S. has to eliminate them ASAP, sorry if I'm wrong. They need to do it if only they have specific plans to do it and another way to increase the defense of the country.

Answer 5

the purpose of the organic and organic weapon is to kill each residing being interior a reasonably great radius, without destroying the homes/roads and so on.. A bullet is to small to furnish a huge sufficient volume. the purpose of a bullet is to kill a single residing being. If the bullet itself kills it is meant aim, what's the purpose of including the organic and organic agent? it would only upload value to bullet for terribly minor income. seems putting the organic and organic agent on the bullet might probably create probability to the factor it incredibly is employing them? For a small transport equipment, i think of you have chose to verify poison tip darts or arrows utilized with the aid of fairly some historical tribal societies. Hitting your aim with a blow dart isn't any assure which you will possibly kill it, yet once you upload a sprint poison...?

Answer 6

To eliminate ALL means that even test samples used to develop cures and defences against these horrible agents would also have to be eliminated. I am not in favor of deploying Bioweapons or even developing a significant amount. I am in favor of developing test amounts to be used ONLY in developing cures and defences against these agents.

Answer 7

If the U S were to elimnate the biological weapos the agents would be elimnated automatically. Yes I think they should get rid of all those nasty stuff.

Answer 8

There are a lot of things that should be, but they are not, because humans are by nature lustful for power, wealth, prestige, and other things which makes them do what it takes to achieve these things. I am talking about nations as well as individuals.

Answer 9

it would be a very smart idea,but what about china and russia with their gaint stockpiles of the same type of stuff?
If they know we have it,there a little less likely to use it on us knowing we would use ares against them.

Answer 10

Debate in one hand, and crap in the other. Which one fills up quicker??? Be sure to "debate" the terrorists with that argument, heheheh!!!!