... 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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... the whole world" (Doc I). Letters between Kruschev and Kennedy also show that America was willing to make plenty of demands, but yield to none. Kennedy ordered the Soviet's remove their weapons from Cuba. Russia replied with a similar request, you remove your missiles from Turkey, and we will remove ours from Cuba (Doc P). For, as the Soviets complained, nothing separated American munitions ... from Soviet land; they shared a border. But with Cuba, 90 miles of ocean separated the Communist weapons from American land. Still, Kennedy did not see the American forces in Turkey as being any ...

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... the guerrilla tactics used by the Mujahedeen, Russia turned to more devastating styles of warfare including; carpet bombing, blanketing areas with landmines, and using chemical weapons such as napalm and poison gas. The use of these deadly weapons did not do much good for the Russians, it had little effect on the guerrilla fighters, but the civilian casualties were enormous. The number of ... ...

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The Second World War brought had an aftermath of another war, the Cold War, which was basically the U.S vs the Soviet Union, both were highly equipped with weapons of mass destruction and were opposites, this was cause enough to bring fears of destruction or even annihilation, change in economics and social changes to the U.S and the free world. ... be brought in a case of Nuclear holocaust and President Eisenhower leveled it well. At this point in time, the U.S and the Soviet Union did not trust each other. They built weapons of mass destruction and used them as deterrents for one another. ...

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... losses and being surrounded meant they relied on the Luftwaffe, who could only provide 1/6 of the needed daily supplies. The supply runs, however relied on favorable weather and as the deadly winter set in they became fewer. German soldiers fought among themselves for food and warmth and by February 1943 the remaining 91,000 German soldiers surrendered. Only 6,000 returned to ... in Papa New Guinea, meant the desperately needed winter clothing, as well as ammo, fuel and food could not reach the troops. Furthermore they underestimated the Russian capacity to produce weapons and vehicles....

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