Harvard WorldMUN 2018 - Position Paper

Country: State of Qatar | Committee: Disarmament and International Security Committee | Topic: Biological Warfare

Biological warfare is an issue of increasing complexity. While the potential dangers of biological weapons have since long been clear (Biological Weapons Convention, 1972), fast advances in biotechnology and new technologies to learn and communicate about biological weapons such as the dark web pose new dimensions (UN Security Council 12888, 2017). While officially the development and research for advancement of biological weapons is recognised as an u...