In comparison, chemical reactions only release about 5 eV per atom. ... In July of 1945 a team of scientists and engineers working under the command of General Groves on the Manhattan Project demonstrated at the Trinity site in New Mexico that a rapid series of chain reactions could be harnessed to make a nuclear weapon. ... The fields of nuclear engineering, nuclear physics and computational physics have graduated many scientists and engineers that are quite capable of figuring out how to design a nuclear weapon that would work. ... Furthermore there is evidence for both chemical weapo...

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The major threats come in three forms: chemical, biological and nuclear. ... The difference between chemical and biological warfare is that chemical warfare implements poisons, gasses and defoliants and biological warfare has virus" and natural diseases. ... One scenario that has been explored is that a genetically engineered version of the Ebola virus would be spread simultaneously through airborne means at conventions in a country. ... A genetically engineered version could have a morality rate of up to 95%. ... The good news is that Ebola is an extremely rare disease that is found in Af...

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Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction The evidence published by a number of think tanks and governments indicates that Iraq still has chemical and biological weapons and that it could one day develop a nuclear device. Richard Butler, former United Nations (UN) weapons inspector, warns that Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is actively developing weapons of mass destruction and has stepped up the production of biological and chemical agents since inspections ended four years ago. ... Iraq could have nukes by 2005 A former Iraqi nuclear engineer told a senate hearing Wednesday ...

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