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 * Should Australia Conduct Biological Weapon Research As a Way Of Defending Our Country?**


 * About Biological Weapons**: Biological weapons are toxic materials, produced from pathogenic organisms. biological weapons have been used on living organisms, such as Humans, animals and plants. they can also poison other non-living things such as air, water and dirt. some biological weapons are set off by a bomb that way it is released as the bomb explodes. one of the problems with this idea is, that most of the microbes would be destroyed with the explosion.

Agent Orange was the code name for a herbicide made for the military, mainly used in tropical climates. it all began in the 1940's, serious testing for military did not begin until the early 1960's.The purpose of the product was to destroy an enemy in concealment in dense terrain by cutting down trees and bush's where the enemy could hide. The product "Agent Orange", was a code name to label the drums it was stored in.The product was tested in Vietnam in the early 1960's, and brought into the war in (1967-68).Agent Orange was a 50-50 mix of two chemicals, known conventionally as 2,4,D and 2,4,5,T. The combined product was mixed with kerosene or diesel fuel and dispersed by aircraft, vehicle, and hand spraying. An estimated 19 million gallons of Agent Orange were used in South Vietnam during the war.The earliest health concerns about Agent Orange were about the product's contamination with TCDD, or dioxin. TCDD is one of a family of dioxins.The TCDD found in Agent Orange is thought to be harmful to man. In laboratory tests on animals, TCDD has caused a wide variety of diseases, many of them fatal. TCDD is not found in nature, but rather is a man-made and always unwanted byproduct of the chemical manufacturing process. The Agent Orange used in Vietnam was later found to be extremely contaminated with TCDD.
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 * Here are some Biologocial weapons:**


 * Antharax-bacillus Anthracis
 * Clostridium botulinum
 * Clostridium perfringens
 * Ricin
 * Smallpox


 * Sir Franks Opinion:** Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (Won a noble prize in physiology and medicine), said in 1946 that Australia should develope biological weapons that would work in tropical Asia, without it spreading to Australia.

BWC (biological weapons convention) has been active since 1975.
 * Biological Weapons Convention:** Australia Currently has a biological weapons convention stopping states parties from using biological weapons or related materials that could be used to make them. they are not permitted to transfer materials that might be used in the making of biological weapons. the


 * History:** Biological weapons have been used for thousands of years. Archers from 400 BC dipped their arrows in blood mixed with various manures to try and infect their targets. In Greek and Roman times dead animals were used to pollute drinking water. In 1346 Crimean Tartars catapulted corpses infected with the plague into their enemies castles that they were attacking.


 * Who makes money from biological weapons?** People who make money out of biological weapons would probably the same people that make money out of war. A select few become millionaires or billionaires or are already rich and become richer while everyone else pretty much stands where they were or are worse off. Also the people who were directly affected by biological weapons would, of course, be dead or left in poverty. The country that launched the weapons would become more powerful and would profit aswel.


 * Pro's and Con's about Biological Weapons:**

said that one gram of botulinum toxin could kill 10 million people. This is about 3 million times more deadly than Sarin. Another advantage is that biological weapons are the cheapest of all modern warfare weapons. To affect 1 square kilometer, it would take about $2000 worth of resources using normal weapons, about $800 using nuclear weapons, $600 using chemical weapons and a total of $1 using biological weapons.A country who launched the biological weapons program would possibly benefit from it as long as they have a lab and lots of precautions, so that the agent didn't get out and pollute its own people. However, the country, of just its leader, would most likely be condemned for using weapons as inhumane as biological weapons on what would most likely be helpless people.
 * Pro's:** One of the main advantages of using biological weapons is the fact that biological weapons are extraordinarily cheap. It is

Obviously the people who the biological weapons targeted are going to suffer. Biological weapons can infect the population of people it targets very quickly, and many of the people targeted die a painful death. Also, some workers making the weapons may become infected. The country who used biological weapons, as said before, would be condemned by the national community.
 * Con's:**The biggest disadvantage of using biological weapons is that you cant really tell what would happen. Who said that it won't end up infecting your allies. Another disadvantage is that these biological weapons last for quite awhile. Anthrax (type of poison), for example, can stay in the dirt for up to 50 years. So in other words you cant send your troops there for more then 50 years if you want to be safe.

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