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'''Biological weapons''' are infectious or toxic agents used in warfare. In the [[Western]] world, they are banned under the Biological Weapons Convention of 1975<ref>http://www.unog.ch/80256EE600585943/%28httpPages%29/04FBBDD6315AC720C1257180004B1B2F?OpenDocument</ref> but some countries still have stocks of them. Biological weapons have the potential of a deadly threat against [[civilian]] [[population]]s.
'''Biological weapons''' are infectious or toxic agents used in warfare. In the [[Western world]], they are banned under the Biological Weapons Convention of 1975<ref>http://www.unog.ch/80256EE600585943/%28httpPages%29/04FBBDD6315AC720C1257180004B1B2F?OpenDocument</ref> but some countries still have stocks of them. Biological weapons have the potential of a deadly threat against [[civilian]] [[population]]s.
==United States==
{{See also|U.S. funded biological labs abroad}}
[[File:Biological research labs.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Russian military reported it had identified 30 sites where biological research with pathogens had been occurring under the direction of the [[Pentagon]]; [[Victoria Nuland]] later confirmed 46 locations.<ref>[https://youtu.be/ydSf57SRtcQ Ukraine Has Biological Research Facilities, Concerned Russian Forces May Seek To Gain Control: US], Mar 11, 2022.</ref>]]
[[Ukraine]] has no control over the military bio-laboratories on its own territory. According to the 2005 Agreement between the [[US Department of Defense]] and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the Ukrainian government is prohibited from public disclosure of sensitive information about the US program and Ukraine is obliged to transfer to the DoD dangerous [[pathogen]]s for biological research.<ref>https://2001-2009.state.gov/documents/organization/95251.pdf</ref> The [[Pentagon]] has been granted access to certain state secrets<ref>Likely the identities of US contacts and counterparts in the Ukranian government with knowledge of the arrangements and authority to act in a given situation.</ref> of Ukraine in connection with the projects under their agreement.
Only three laboratories in Ukraine had the required safety criteria to undertake the type of research they were doing, according to the [[Russian]] military. Captured Ukrainian government documents point to a series of problems at one of those sites in [[Odessa]].
Lieutenant General [[Igor Kirillov]], the head of the Radioactive, Chemical, and Biological Protection Forces, accused the [[Kyiv regime]] of carrying out “inhumane experiments” on Ukrainian patients and of launching a biological attack against the [[Lugansk Peoples Republic]] in early May 2022. Other evidence suggests that when Russia moved soldiers into Ukraine in February 2022, attempts were made to weaponize [[drone]]s to spread [[pathogen]]s and to destroy compromising materials. In response to the revelations by the [[Russian Investigative Committee]], the Pentagon fessed up in June 2022 to funding 46 biological research facilities in Ukraine over the last 20 years.<ref>https://greatgameindia.com/pentagon-admits-biolabs-ukraine/</ref> Gen. Kirillov was assassinated in a [[terrorist]] attack in [[Moscow]] in December 2024.
Two years before the [[NATO war in Ukraine]] started, [[CGTN]] discussed US biolabs around the world.<ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-11/Biolabs-around-the-world-QpgMAnwV0I/index.html</ref><ref>https://newsaf.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-16/Time-to-reveal-what-s-going-on-in-U-S-biolabs-QwpxrRTI7C/index.html</ref><ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-21/U-S-deployed-over-200-military-biological-laboratories-worldwide-QFtLkqhuVy/index.html</ref><ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-04-30/The-U-S-needs-to-open-up-about-its-biological-labs-in-the-former-USSR-Q6ud6hO84E/index.html</ref><ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-11/Do-U-S-biolabs-hold-up-to-scrutiny--Qp3jQrmvoQ/index.html</ref><ref>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-06-11/Global-netizens-reveal-growing-list-of-U-S-bio-security-labs-ReT49fqZEs/index.html</ref>
===Gain of function===
In a 2012 scientific paper, [[Dr. Anthony Fauci]] of the U.S. [[National Institutes of Health]] argued that the alleged benefits resulting from gain of function research outweighed the risks.<ref>https://twitter.com/mirandadevine/status/1398286881306128402</ref> On October 17, 2014, the [[Obama administration]] announced a moratorium on gain-of-function research.<ref>https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/10/17/doing-diligence-assess-risks-and-benefits-life-sciences-gain-function-research</ref> The moratorium was lifted by the [[Obama]] [[White House]] in January 2017, eleven days before [[President Trump]] was sworn into office.
In March 2018, [[Peter Daszak]]'s [[EcoHealth Alliance]] (EHA) submitted a funding request to the [[Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency]] (DARPA) for bat coronavirus research called Operation Defuse. It was rejected as too dangerous.<ref>https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1480740626161414145</ref> DARPA gave as the reason's for rejection:<ref>https://assets.ctfassets.net/syq3snmxclc9/5OjsrkkXHfuHps6Lek1MO0/5e7a0d86d5d67e8d153555400d9dcd17/defuse-project-rejection-by-darpa.pdf</ref>
{{quotebox-float|''DRASTIC independently assesses that the tone of the proposal (see for instance the ‘our cave complex’) and the deep suggested involvement of some of the WIV parties ([[Shi Zheng Li]] employed half-time for 3 years - paid via the grant - and invited to DARPA headquarters at [[Arlington, Virginia|Arlington]]), may not have helped either - especially in the absence of any DURC [Duel Use Research of Concern] risk mitigation program.''
''It is clear that the proposed DEFUSE project led by Peter Daszak could have put local communities at risk by failing to consider the following issues:''
- Gain of Function
- Dual Use Research of Concern
- Vaccine epitope coverage
- Regulatory requirements
- ELSI (ethical, legal, and social issues)
- Data Usage}}
[[File:Govt Advisors SHRED Documents Detailing Fauci Obama-Era Work With Wuhan Lab.PNG|right|275px|thumb|In February 2022 it was reported that government advisors shredded documents detailing the Obama administration's work with the Wuhan Lab.]]
Fauci however, cast aside the [[Pentagon]]'s concerns and picked up the project, funding to be continued at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and in [[North Carolina]]. Fauci's reasoning was that the probability of a pandemic arising in nature was greater than a viral pathogen escaping from a lab, or his trusted communist partners in the [[Peoples Liberation Army]] using it as an offensive biological weapon.<ref>https://youtu.be/_Rt_dcAh8JI</ref>
==China==
==China==
[[File:Covid 19 bioweapon.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Leaked Chinese document.]]
[[File:Covid 19 bioweapon.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Leaked Chinese document.]]
:{{See also|Coronavirus}}
:{{See also|Coronavirus}}
[[COVID-19]] was created in a laboratory by the Chinese [[People's Liberation Army]] and fine-tuned as a bioweapon. It was specifically designed to be highly contagious, but often [[asymptomatic]], have low lethality, but produce uncontrollable variants and possessing characteristics providing plausible deniability as a bioweapon.
[[COVID-19]] was created in a laboratory by the Chinese [[People's Liberation Army]] and fine-tuned as a bioweapon. It was specifically designed to be highly contagious, but often [[asymptomatic]], have low lethality, but produce uncontrollable variants and possessing characteristics providing [[plausible deniability]] as a bioweapon.
According to [[Chinese military doctrine]], such bioweapons are used prior to a declaration of war for political or international strategic needs, where the use of which can be denied. The intent, according to [[leak]]ed documents, being: "Even if the academic evidence, virological evidence, and animal experiment data could possibly prove (that the virus comes from the lab), we can just deny it, stop (investigation), suppress (scholars), make sure the international organizations and honest people’s work is futile.”
According to [[Chinese military doctrine]], such bioweapons are used prior to a declaration of war for political or international strategic needs, where the use of which can be denied. The intent, according to [[leak]]ed documents, being: "Even if the academic evidence, virological evidence, and animal experiment data could possibly prove (that the virus comes from the lab), we can just deny it, stop (investigation), suppress (scholars), make sure the international organizations and honest people’s work is futile.”
==See also==
==See also==
*[[CCP global pandemic]]
*[[Covid-19 pandemic]]
* [[Bioterrorism]]
* [[Bioterrorism]]
==References==
==References==
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