... was deployed by a religious cult in Japan in 1995 to kill and injure the general public, and mustard gas that was used during World War I. Biological weapons are far more deadly and destructive compared to chemical weapons; examples of biological weapons are anthrax and the bubonic plague. However with chemical and biological weapons, their effectiveness relies heavily on the accuracy of ... Afghanistan, the Afghan government used artillery against the United States that the United States sold to them when they were fighting the war against Russia; this is referred to as deadly returns....

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... for United States troops to spot them. So in 1962 the Army began using Agent Orange as a way of eliminating that problem. The government had very little knowledge about the deadly chemical but went ahead and used it anyway. They had no idea of the disastrous long-term effects that it would have on men, women and children. But the hardest ... the war. (Online, lewispublishing, Mar 27. 1999) As the planes would drop the massive amounts of Agent Orange onto Vietnam, United States soldiers would unknowingly walk to certain disaster. The deadly chemical affected everyone from ground troops t...

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... we were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why." (McNamara "The Tragedy and lessons of Vietnam" Preface) Many argue now that the Vietnam War was a deadly mistake, and it is my opinion as well. History cannot be looked at trough White and Black glasses. There are neither completely wrong nor right decisions, nor does completely "good ... . By 1950's South-East Asia became place where interest of superpowers, such as United States, China and USSR, as well as fading colonial empires like France and United Kingdom, created deadly tensions. American leaders felt...

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... for United States troops to spot them. So in 1962 the Army began using Agent Orange as a way of eliminating that problem. The government had very little knowledge about the deadly chemical but went ahead and used it anyway. They had no idea of the disastrous long-term effects that it would have on men, women and children. But the hardest ... the war. (Online, lewispublishing, Mar 27. 1999) As the planes would drop the massive amounts of Agent Orange onto Vietnam, United States soldiers would unknowingly walk to certain disaster. The deadly chemical affected everyone from ground troops t...

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The Atomic Bomb To drop a bomb on Japan would be immoral, create an uneasy relationship between America and Russia and possibly open up a new kind of deadly warfare. There are military advantages to detonating a bomb over Japan, such as the thousands of American lives that would be saved when soldiers did not have to participate in combat ... effects of radiation."...plutonium, known to lodge in human lungs and other internal soft tissue... diminishes so slowly that it will take twenty-four thousand years for half of its deadly alpha radiation to decay. Other radioactive isotopes left by an ...

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... its victims. Napalm was even weaponized into flamethrowers and air bombs making them much more powerful and gruesome. Now imagine innocent civilians including women and children being hit with this deadly substance just because they're village may have been suspected of harboring and helping the enemy. Or they were considered to be in the way on the battlefield and looked ... ...

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... morning. A surplus of nuclear energy surged into the reactor, which then exploded and instantly killed every last worker in the immediate vicinity and exposed an immeasurable number of others to deadly levels of radiation, even as far as in Sweden. Some workers were sent to respond to the disaster and were ordered to encase the reactor in concrete. In the following ... ...

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... morning. A surplus of nuclear energy surged into the reactor, which then exploded and instantly killed every last worker in the immediate vicinity and exposed an immeasurable number of others to deadly levels of radiation, even as far as in Sweden. Some workers were sent to respond to the disaster and were ordered to encase the reactor in concrete. In the following ... ...

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... and before he was elected he served two terms as California governor with his first year starting in 1966. After serving four years as president, Reagan was then diagnosed with a deadly disease known as colon cancer. Regan had then been recommended to undergo surgery in order to remove the cancer. Eight days later Reagan had survived the operation and was back ... ...

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... cartoons. The citizens of Salem have reached a point of paranoia that causes them to question even their closet and innocent neighbors. The combination of unsettled disputes and paranoia results in a deadly chain of accusations. Elizabeth Proctor is similar to the teacher figure in Herb Blocks cartoon. Elizabeth remains sensible, and morally innocent throughout the story, but is accused of witchcraft for ... ...

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... 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 civilian deaths is not ... ...

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... be without their husbands, sons, or fathers. The Japanese are also guilty of many atrocities performed on the Americans. They are responsible for Pearl Harbor, which is the second most deadly attack on American soil, behind September 11, 2001. Pearl Harbor was a military base on the Hawaiian islands that housed most of the U.S. Naval force. On December 7th, 1941, the Japanese ... ...

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... . Perhaps the only thing that Americana feared more than the spread of communism was the threat of nuclear war. As the Cold War progressed, both nations practiced nuclear proliferation, amassing deadly nuclear weapons in preparation for a war to end all wars. The biggest question on everyone's mind as the Cold war threat progressed was rather simple: "Who will strike first ... ...

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... leaders of the communist parties in the world. They had to explain to ordinary communists why they glorified Stalin before, but now they began to accuse him of all "deadly sins." The mixed reaction of the international communist movement, disorders in the socialist countries of Europe, the events in Georgia, a secondary failure of returning Yugoslavia in the socialist camp during ... ...

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... sides saw themselves as victims. Neither side wanted to contemplate compromise in order to obtain peace. For decades the Middle East threatened to make the United States apart of it's deadly wars. Until 1993, when Israel and the Palestinians signed the Declaration of Principles on the White House lawn, the bridge to make peace hadn't taken place. Now the briged Arab ... ...

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... 10:30 P.M. the first border, Bornholmer Strasse, was opened. At that moment it meant the end of the Berlin Wall. Soon after, other borders opened, and in that night the deadly border was opened by East Berliners in every way, but peacefully (Burkhardt). In conclusion, the "Iron Curtain" that had divided Berlin for so long had come down. Since 1961, the ... ...

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... have make life on earth easier. On the other hand, the advances in technology have made life more difficult because weapons of mass destruction are being produced. In "Russians," "Oppenheimer's deadly toy" hints around about the government of Russia stocking weapons because they fear a war with the United States would happen in the future. The lack of trust for political leaders ... ...

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... nothing to advance the Allied position. Hitler's army was allowed six months to reinforce and plan. The Allies continued to put themselves in a position of disadvantage. While the Europeans faced a deadly threat with Hitler, the South Pacific saw its own menace with Japan. Imperial Japan, which imported almost 100 percent of its oil and most of its natural resources, began a campaign ... ...

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... fastest growing immigrant groups in the United States. Add this with the world affairs in the Middle East, an uneducated mass population on this issue, and the outcome can become deadly. The majority of Muslim Americans are first generation immigrants. A large number come from Asia, Europe, Africa, and there are a few that originate in the West Indies or Latin America. The ... ...

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... technology available back then, scientists had no way of know the lasting impact of nuclear waste. Not only would it kill everything around it, but also it would leave behind deadly radiation that would have affected humanity for generations. The smooth conclusion to this almost cataclysmic event was critical, and demonstrated the power both nations had, and the power both nations ... ...

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... war used in combat. It ended the Second World War. However, the bomb's used turned out to be a big controversy. President Harry Truman had many good reasons of dropping such a deadly bomb, but some people thought we shouldn't have ended the war like we did. President Truman decided to put many years of nuclear warfare research to use when he choose ... ...

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... had a opening scene that depicts the battles that were very possible. This showed the United States forces landing on japans soil and attacking the Japanese forces. This battle was very deadly. Literally there were hundreds of lives were shown dying on film. The way war really was. Back then. The heartlessness, the racism, the torment that these soldiers. There was also ... ...

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... no concessions be made. The North Veitnamese also rejected many of the provisions of the draft. The conflict became worse in December 1972, when the Nixon administration unleashed a series of deadly bombing raids against targets in North Vietnam's largest cities, Hanoi and Haiphong. These attacks were looked down on by the international community and forced the Nixon administration to reconsider its ... ...

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... action was. Caputo as well as the rest of the marines where surprised to find that with Vietnam brought boredom. Day after day they sat around just waiting. It became a deadly routine of keeping watch and repairing things. Caputo began to think of the war as "phony." There was always talk of action, but nothing ever followed through. War wasn't amounting ... ...

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... with 94% cotton these outfits quickly disintegrated in the hot and humid jungle climates. An M60; a general purpose machinegun that was light enough to be carried on patrol but proved deadly in a firefight, and/or an M16 which fired .223 caliber bullets at a rate of 750-900 rounds per minute on an automatic setting. A new kind of cartridge was developed for ... ...

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