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To defend against biological weapons. The DoD is responsible for defending the US against all kinds of attacks -- conventional, nuclear, chemical, and biologica

To defend against biological weapons. The DoD is responsible for defending the US against all kinds of attacks -- conventional, nuclear, chemical, and biological -- even if it doesn't use all of those weapon types itself.

waffleiron 5y ago
> even if it doesn't use all of those weapon types itself. US has changed to a limited interpretation of what a biological weapon is, and considers non-deadly biological agents to not be bioweapons when it comes to treaties banning them. https://web.archive.org/web/20121204112835/http://www.fas.org/programs/bio/resource/original.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121204112835/http://www.fas.or... The US does research into chemical and bio-weapons they do not consider to be lethal: https://web.archive.org/web/20121119043547/http://www.fas.org/programs/bio/chemweapons/nonlethal.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121119043547/http://www.fas.or...
- kodah 5y ago
  That makes sense. The only bioweapon we were routinely trained on is tear gas, so if they're building stuff on level with tear gas I wouldn't be surprised. The other type of bioweapon that your second link mentioned is microbes that eat through structural material. This looks like it's purposed for breaching, which makes sense given how dangerous breaching is today.