Why are nukes legal under international law, while biological

>>32915235
I didn't write the laws so I can't tell you what the writers had in mind, but an obvious distinction is that bioweapons are even more indiscriminate than nukes.

You could conceivably have situations where you can use a nuke with a reasonable assurance that you aren't going to wipe out thousands of civilians - i.e. launching it at a remote military base or at a fleet of ships.

Once you get someone sick with your bioweapon it's completely out of your hands. It can spread to the civilian population of any nation.

>>32915259
Also, once an enemy surrenders you can at least stop launching nukes at them. If you've sent bioweapons in and the enemy surrenders, you can stop launching bioweapons, but the ones you've already launched can keep on killing unrestrained. A nuke is a single event, a bioweapon is a series of events that continues indefinitely.

>>32915259
Dude, modern bioweapon is used not against civil population, but against economies. African swine fever virus SUDDENLY appeared in Russian region near Georgia just after 888 war. Unknown fungus attacks opium poppy in Afghanistan. Cuba is under bioweapon attacks permanently since 60th.

>>32915274

>nuke
>single event

background radiation and fallout effected Japan for decades after the nukes... not to mention cancer and birth defect rates.

I understand your argument and agree, but nukes arent just a big boom and done

>>32915235
Everyone has bioweapons, not everyone has nukes.

>>32915259
>>32915274
Makes sense.

>>32915394
>Everyone has bioweapons
What? I thought only a few countries did (and kept it secret)?

>>32915394
This. The barrier to entry to bioweapons production is significantly lower than that of nuclear arms. Any nation with a basic pharmaceutical or biomedical industry has everything they need.

>>32915235
Technically nuclear weapons are used against infrastructure and materiel, while bioweapons are exclusively gruesome antipersonnel munitions
>>32915492
Any nation that has the capability to produce and contain a weaponized virus and produce the munitions to disperse it can enrich uranium

>>32915405
Dude, you can grow anthrax spores in your basement with about the same amount of effort as brewing beer. Anyone who wants a bioweapons(or beer) program can have one.

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>>32915235
I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so.

We should nuke Japan again for the Lulz.

Muhreen Infantry, formerly, there isn't a world, please tell enough without dead Nips.

Die mother fuckers. Have a John Bassillone. He killed so many of you I can ROFL.