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Committee # 2 Chemical and Biological Weapons Australia **__ History of Problem __** The use of Chemical and Biological weapons is not a new concept. To use these weapons has increased in recent years. The events on September 11 strengthen international non-proliferation, regimes. Australia is not currently know or believed of mass destruction. The use of chemical agents in war time was the Japanese Imperial Army in WWII. Nazi Germany also used discoveries of tabun and sarin. Nazi troops attacked a US frigate, using a large quantity of mustard gas, and off the coast of Italy. In the 1960’s, the US destroyed a large portion of its chemical agent stockpile, known as CHASE, they loaded it onto boats and sinking them between Bahamas and Florida. Australian universities researched areas of biological science of relevance to biological weapons. **__ UN Involvement __** In 1992, the United Nation, after being approved by the UN General Assembly, Published the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) on November 30, 1992. It helps prevent the development and transfer of chemical weapon technology. The UN special commissions have barely destroyed 40,000 chemical devices in Iraq’s possession. The treaty of Nuclear Non-Proliferation is constructed in three pillars and the disarmament of nuclear energy. The organization for prohibition of chemical weapons, are made up of 183 member states and have destroyed over 27,000 metric tones of weapon material. **__ Country Policy and Involvement __** Australia has participated in extensive research into nuclear biological and chemical weapons in the past. Australia close not have nuclear weapons. It is not known to be seeking to develop them. Australia has advanced research programs in microbiology, immunology, and genetic engineering that support a world class vaccines fro domestic use and exports. Australia also imports wine, and produces microorganisms on industrial scale. This supports agriculture, food technology and brewing. Australia has conducted research on chemical weapons during WWII. Australia has never produced chemical weapons, it stockpile chemical weapons from the USA and Britain. No actual use of the weapons was recorded. Although there were many trials using live chemical weapons. After WWII, the chemical weapons were disposed of by venting, burning, or by throwing into the sea. About 21,030 tons of chemical weapons were dumped in the seas of Australia near Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney. For testing chemical and biological weapons in the Australian bush, must be in light that took place in the forest of Hawaii and Panama during the 1960’s.

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