Biological And Chemical Weapons!!
Human lives are at stake as we are approaching the new millennium. It’s been 1000 years, and we sure have evolved in many ways in building our technology. Invention of telephones to televisions to VCRs to planes, and to much more, technology has been a good friend to us. But is it always human-friendly? Beyond the shadows of the doubt, the answer is “no”. Discovery of ammunition, guns, warheads, and biological and chemical weapons sure is on the negative side of the field with respect to our technological developments. Isn’t it ironic, the same technology that made us strong, is also the demon of our lives? Indeed it is. Biological and chemical weapons are mass destructive ...
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state biological agents tend to find niches, and continue to grow exponentially without termination. Because it hardly reaches a closure, biological weapons are not widely used. Nevertheless, history states it has been used during World Wars (I & II), cold war, and last but not least, also very recently in Tokyo, Japan by terrorists. Using such lethal weaponry kill people in exceptional amounts. Furthermore, it causes environmental degradation, spoiling our natural resources. Therefore, usage of mass destructive biological and chemical weapons, is a great threat to the existence of human species and our precious environment.
Biological Weapons
Biological weapons are anti-civilian weapons. They use disease producing bacteria or other microorganisms to destroy crops, livestock or human life. “ Biological weapons employing infectious agents pathogenic to man have the potential to kill or incapacitate populations over large areas.”1 Only a small amount is required to initiate the ...
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the infection. History states, during 18th and 19th centuries American and Canadian soldiers were vaccinated when anthrax plague breakout possessed Europe, killing 60% of victims within two to five days. Genetic engineering and biotechnology do seem promising of overcoming these hurdles. It should be no surprise, if it were to come of ways to discharge the bio-agents to a specified ethnic group, still providing adequate measures in protecting the attackers. There is also prospect of discovering appropriate vaccines that will immunize the attacker from getting harmed. In the recent age with the booming of biotechnology, manufacturing traditional weapons such as anthrax have become ...
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