Biological weapons

Japanese: 生物兵器 - せいぶつへいき

Weapons that kill or cause disease in humans, animals, and plants using biological agents such as bacteria, viruses, rickettsia, and biological tissue toxins. Advances in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry have broadened the scope of biological weapons. The conditions for application as weapons include high power in small quantities, resistance to the outside environment, stability, difficulty in identifying the actual form, and suitability for mass production and dispersion. They are classified as biological agents against humans, animals, and plants. They are used by being loaded into artillery shells, bombs, missiles, etc., or sprayed from aircraft, and are condemned as B weapons of the ABC weapons category due to their inhumanity, and their use is prohibited by international law, but they are being developed under the cover of normal medical and bacteriological research, and under the pretext of research into defense methods. The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) was signed in April 1972 and came into force in March 1973. As of the end of 2004, there are 153 member countries. → Geneva Protocol → Related topic Chemical weapons

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Japanese:

細菌，ウイルス，リケッチア，生体組織毒素などの生物剤により人間，動植物を殺したり病気にかからせる兵器。微生物学，遺伝学，生化学などの進歩が細菌兵器をさらに広範化した。兵器としての適用条件は，少量で威力大，外界の環境に抵抗性，安定性があり，実体確認が困難で，大量生産，散布に適するなど。対人生物剤，対動物生物剤および対植物生物剤に分類する。使用は砲弾，爆弾，ミサイルなどに装入したり，航空機からの散布によるABC兵器のB兵器としてその非人道性が非難され，国際法で使用が禁止されているが，通常の医学，細菌学の研究に隠れて，またその防御法の研究を名目として開発が行われている。生物兵器禁止条約（Biological Weapons Convention，BWC）は1972年４月調印され，1973年３月発効。2004年末現在加盟国153ヵ国。→ジュネーブ議定書
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