... 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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... 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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... it is caught through cuts or abrasions on the skin, and usually results in local and systemic infection. This form of the disease is not as deadly as the other forms of it, but if untreated, the death rate can reach approximately twenty percent, and is less than one percent in treated cases ... . Inhalational anthrax is a lot more uncommon in humans and animals, but is perhaps ten times as deadly. This type of anthrax is caught by inhaling the spores, though it does not multiply in the lungs, but travels to the mediastinal lymph nodes (the ... by a high fever, nausea, loss of appetite, v...

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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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... "(Pate 2). In 1995, in Japan, a doomsday cult released sarin, a nerve gas, in the Tokyo subway. "12 were killed and over a thousand injured"(Pate 1). Some of the most deadly chemical and biological weapons are Anthrax, Cholera, Smallpox, The Plague, Ricin, Chlorine Gas, Hydrogen Cyanide, Sarin, and VX. Some of the symptoms include fatigue, blurred vision, nausea, diarrhea, blood poisoning, respiratory failure, ... frothing at the mouth, blindness, and convulsions. In many peoples opinion these weapons are worse than nuclear and I think they are right. The CIA is probably the best intelli...

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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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... to be in leadership of. The extreme terrorist group has training camps to teach kids as young as 14 years old how to use guns, bombs, and different types of weapons of mass destruction. These kids are even taught to hate Americans and Jews. On September 11, 2001 two planes crashed into the World Trade Centers in New York City. This ... , odorless, tasteless bacterium that protects itself from the sunlight, heat, and disinfectant by forming a protective coat. The spores are so small that it would take 8,000 to 10,000 for deadly inhalation anthrax to infect someone (Saporito, 129). This mu...

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... flood of bacteria and toxins into the blood, killing up to 99% of untreated victims.(8) Natural and genetically engineered antibiotic-resistant bacilli amplify the threat of spores being used as weapons, and heighten the need for improved treatments and spore-detection methods after an intentional release. In October 2001, a letter which contained a large number of anthrax spores was sent through the ... seem to us as a small fact, the world has been in an uproar over a possible biological war being started. At this point in time we have no treatment for this deadly killer, but we do ha...

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... to be in leadership of. The extreme terrorist group has training camps to teach kids as young as 14 years old how to use guns, bombs, and different types of weapons of mass destruction. These kids are even taught to hate Americans and Jews. On September 11, 2001 two planes crashed into the World Trade Centers in New York City. This ... , odorless, tasteless bacterium that protects itself from the sunlight, heat, and disinfectant by forming a protective coat. The spores are so small that it would take 8,000 to 10,000 for deadly inhalation anthrax to infect someone (Saporito, 129). This mu...

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