Many countries are believed to have a biological warfare attack program in place. Some of the distinguished countries are: Syria, Russia, China, Iran, Israel, Egypt and North Korea. The simplest way to begin to explain biological warfare is to consider any living organism and its potential potential to be used as a means of causing damage, injury, or even death to any population (Hooker , 2014). The organism may consist of bacteria, fungi or viruses. There are also toxins that can be found in any natural environment that can potentially be used as a biological attack against a person or population. This is a proven fact, supported by evidence that there are countries that may have an active biological warfare program, but there has been a combined effort by the United States and over 160 other countries to renew the biological warfare program. Arms Commission Treaty. The goal of establishing unified compliance from other countries regarding the BWC treaty is that the treaty prohibits the development and production of biological weapons for offensive purposes. However, the BWC treaty actually authorizes the development and testing of biological weapons for the purpose of designing defensive measures against attacks using biological weapons (The Living Weapon, PBS). The primary goal of the U.S. Army's biological defense program is to obtain the results of a biological warfare attack over a wide area, in case such an attack occurs. The need for a detection system for biological warfare emerged following Operation Desert Storm (Alibek and Handelman, 1999). The US military has pushed the use of the biological...... middle of paper ...... red system to identify when a biological attack has occurred, this is BIDS. Highly equipped BIDS consist of five main subcomponents: the vehicle itself, the shelter provided, the auxiliary equipment, the power supply, and the biological sensing suite. Works Cited Alibek, K. and Handelman, S. (1999). Biohazard: the chilling true story of the world's largest secret biological weapons program, told from the inside by the man who led it. New York: Random House. Chauhan, S.S. (2004). Biological weapons. India: Nisha Enterprises. Hooker, E. (2014). Read what your doctor reads on Medscape. eMedicineHealth. Retrieved March 18, 2014, from http://www.emedicinehealth.com/biological_Schneider, BR (1999). Passive Defenses Against Chemical and Biological Attacks,” Chapter 5 in Future Warfare and Counterproliferation. US military responses to NBC proliferation threats , 1, 79-116.