الحرب البيولوجية و هل فيروس كورونا سلاح بيولوجي ؟ : و استراتيجيات للمواجهة

الملخص EN

The conflict between humans did not stop throughout the ages, and humans have used everything in nature to serve this conflict since the first ages of history, and during the First World War the world witnessed the actual use of chemical weapons, and multiple allegations related to the use of biological weapons.

In 1925, 28 countries signed the Geneva Protocol, in which the signatory states pledged not to use bacteriological and chemical weapons, but this agreement did not prevent countries from continuing their programs to possess an arsenal of biological weapons, until the major catastrophe occurred during World War II using nuclear weapons By the United States of America against Japan, which greatly developed a biological warfare program before and during World War II, and a lot of information regarding this program was withheld by an agreement between Japan and the United States of America after Japan's defeat in the war.

We can say that the development of biological sciences and genetic engineering was a double-edged sword, the same sciences that are used to save lives were used to kill them, and the countries of the world succeeded in signing a Biological Warfare Convention (BWC) to prohibit the development, production and stockpiling of (biological) and toxin weapons and their destruction in 1972, and the Ninth Review Conference will be held for this convention during 2021 to discuss its articles and try to develop its mechanisms to prevent the development and use of biological weapons in the conflict between nations.

According to the British novelist George Orwell, “Life is a race between education and catastrophe", As the great development in the field of genetic technologies and the production of vaccines collided with the emergence of new pathogens, the latest of which will not be the emerging SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the COVID-19 pandemic around the world, which can be compared to a real storm due to the use of an ideal biological weapon, once again the major countries have been accused of each other by spreading this virus in the world intentionally or by accident, we must carefully examine these allegations before making prior decisions, because this allegations may have negative repercussions on the future of humanity.