... on human, animals, and plants. A chemical agent is a chemical substance, which is intended for use in military operations to kill or seriously injure people because of its physiological effects. Chemical weapons can be classified into two main categories by their instability, persistent and non-persistent agents. A persistent agent continues to present a hazard for a considerable period of time after its delivery. It ... cause sickness and in some cases death in large proportions of a population. This would have devastating effects on mankind. Some main concerns of biological weapons ar...

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... the effects and dangers. Biological agents are contaminating microbes or toxins used to inflict illness or death in people, animals, and plants. Biological weapons depend upon the ability of the microorganisms to infect and grow in the infected organism. Biological agents can be distributed as an aerosol or ... are Anthrax, Botulism, Plague, Small Pox, Tularemia and viruses such as Ebola and Mar burg. The first of these, Anthrax, is a deadly bacterial disease that normally afflicts grazing animals such as sheep and cows. It normally enters the body through skin wounds, inhalation or inge...

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... of the chemicals effects. The poisonous gases can be distributed immediately or time released. As technology advances, so does our capability to design and manufacture more deadlier and dangerous weapons. Biological weapons are the harmful use of micro organisms or toxins that attack a person or animals body at the cellular level. This is also called germ warfare. These micro organisms can ... sleek suites. They filled a bomb with brown, thick goo. Also known as Anthrax. This virus was considered the most efficient bacteria for a biological weapon because it was very infectious and deadl...

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... the world because they can affect many people efficiently and are cost effective. What is the effect and history of biological and chemical weapons? Biological weapons are the harmful use of micro organisms or toxins that attack a person or animals body at the cellular level. This is also ... biological warfare for thousands of years. In medival times, corpses were catapulted into an enemy's fortress. The body would be infected with a deadly disease that would spread within the enclosed walls of the castle. This tactic was used by the romans. Disease infected bodies were also put ... ...

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... of chemicals high enough to kill or wound you. Too little and it is nothing, too much and it is wasted. Creating chemical weapons attack that kill many civilians is incredibly hard to do with military grade agents and equipment so, it would be virtually impossible for terrorists. ... successfully developed anthrax, they have been researching and experimenting with it for years. The United States and Russia have been researching and developing biological weapons for decades, and still they have difficulties making an effective weapon. It took both countries almost 30 years to find a way ...

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... technologies have become widespread throughout the world. A shocking number of at least seventeen nations are suspected of having or attempting to acquire germ weapons. Among the seventeen nations is Iraq. Before the Gulf War in 1991, Iraq admitted to research and production facilities and in 1995 ... weaponry. In 1997, Sudaam Hussein's banning of American inspectors from investigating their development of these weapons created a widespread public concern. The world was surprised to learn that Iraq had produced enough deadly microbes to kill all the people on Earth several times over. Th...

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... the use of harmful or deadly biological agents as a weapon of war. Biological weapons are a unique class of weapons because they are living organisms. These biological agents, because they are alive, pose a dangerous military threat and once released are extremely uncontrollable and unpredictable. These agents can and will kill many, many people and because of this they are considered weapons of mass destruction. Some ... still posed some risks to the population. There are three other ways to disperse agents including missiles, canisters, and sprayers. The missile is the most efficient ...

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... into the parking garage. It was rumored that the truck contained a sodium cyanide device that malfunctioned, which would have released a cloud of deadly cyanide into the building. This rumor had no wrong; there was no cyanide involved in the explosion. As bad as the outcome was, ... so has the world with biochemical warfare by Iraq, Biochemical date back to 431-404 B.C. during the Peloponnesian War, the first chemical weapons were used on the battlefield. Spartans deployed wood that had been saturated with pitch and sulfur to produce sulfur dioxide gas (a highly toxic ... agents can exi...

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... hurled infected bodies over the walls of Kaffa, a horrible type of warfare was introduced to the world: biological warfare. Today, biological warfare is a lot more serious and a lot more deadly. By definition, biological weapons designed to dispense airborne clouds of pathogenic microbes could in theory kill or incapacitate unprotected populations over very large areas. If a country were to use biological ... weapons it could cause the attacked country to use its own biological weapons and possibly even nuclear weapons starting a major war, killing millions of people. As of the year 200...

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Anthrax Vaccination The anthrax vaccination is the only known defense available for United States Troops against the deadly anthrax virus. Many experts have said it is not effective against inhalation anthrax. Studies have not been conclusive in their findings. The chance of living if you have received the ... heat, they are relatively easy to grind and store. U.S. officials say that as many as 12 countries including Russia, Iraq, and North Korea, have established capabilities to produce and load deadly anthrax spores into weapons (D.Funk, Army Times, 3-19-98). An anthrax loaded scud missile...

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... Illness" multiple diseases have been introduced such as Mad Cow Disease, AIDS, Ebola, etc. The Gulf War Illness is an extremely contagious and deadly disease that evolves from a germ warfare agent known as "mycoplasma fermentans". This agent contains a gene that is linked to the HIV virus. ... of babies born to veterans suffer from these complications. The biological warfare used to harm our troops is commonly used to develop biological weapons. These agents were shipped from the American Type Culture Collection. This is an organization that collects and distributes biological specimens...

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... cause supreme chaos in the world in which we live. Recent terrorist attacks have caused the world to think differently of itself. The threat of biological agents possibly used as weapons has created a new fear. Of these possibilities lies Tularemia. This threat only requires someone to inhale at least 10 organisms to cause the disease. People then develop severe illnesses but ... Smallpox. The threat of such a disease is apparent to political figures and biologists. This most likely will never be used, due to its popularity. However, it is among the most deadly biological agents. The re...

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... doses of vaccinations are on hand because the smallpox virus was eradicated in 1977 and is no longer considered a threat. Dr. D. A. Henderson is widely credited with the eradication of this deadly virus as he headed the World Health Organization's (WHO) Smallpox Eradication Unit from 1966 until 1977, just before Rahima Banu came down with the last documented case of Variola major ... that the virus lives unofficially in biological warfare labs throughout the world and that many other nations are trying to acquire the virus for their own research and development of weapons. The abuse of ...

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