However, biological and chemical weapons have been proven to be harmful, and the abusive effects on innocent people demonstrated the destructive nature of such weapons. ... Senate ratified the Biological Weapons Convention. The Biological Weapons Convention prohibits the development, production, storage, and transfer of these weapons. ... The first of these, Anthrax, is a deadly bacterial disease that normally afflicts grazing animals such as sheep and cows. ... Biological weapons pose a serious health danger however chemical weapons have the same effect. ...

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Biological Engineering allows scientist to create new virus straains that are even more deadlier and effecient. ... Some chemical agents are not to deadly like tear gas which only causes a person to start coughing, crying and unable to breathe until they catch a fresh breeze. ... The body would be infected with a deadly disease that would spread within the enclosed walls of the castle. ... This would make the enemies water supply infested with deadly micro organisms. ... This virus was considered the most efficent bacteria for a biological weapon because it was very infectious a...

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Weapons of Mass Destruction Currently the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear weapons, provides the most serious threat to international security. ... While one country's nuclear weapons exist under civilian control, the other countries remain under the control of the military. ... Lastly, the potential for terrorist acquisition of nuclear weapons challenges the NPT. In the post 9/11 world, terrorist acquirement of nuclear weapons seems to be one of the most urgent dangers. ... People began to worry about terrorist acquisition of more deadly and dang...

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Not only that, but it could be used as a weapon, particularly a projectile or striking weapon. ... Along with these reasons, a burning pillow could be used as a distraction, or a deadly weapon. Over all, the deadly journey many Jewish persons endeavored was an almost guaranteed death. ...

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Kildare Dobbs reminds us of humanity's biggest mistakes but also warns us of our greatest danger; "a modern thermonuclear weapon [is] upwards of 1,000 times more powerful and deadly then the Hiroshima bomb," a chilling fact that throughout Dobbs" The Shatterer of Worlds is explicated through an illustration demonstrating the causal relationships between war and victimization. ... Dobbs" argument urges a cease to weapons of mass destruction. ... If we do not stray from unconventional warfare, the warfare of chemical weapons and weapons of mass destructions, we could be seeing the same fate...

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The most famous of these biological weapons is anthrax. ... Another deadly biological agent is smallpox. ... The world was surprised to learn that Iraq had produced enough deadly microbes to kill all the people on Earth several times over. ... Also, information terrorists use to make these weapons needs to be limited. . In conclusion, these biological weapons used by terrorists are becoming a widespread threat. ...

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In Korea if it wasn't for the United Nations the USA probably would of resorted to using weapons of mass destruction. ... The UN provides a place where nations can talk over problems before going to war and making deadly mistakes. ... United States of America soon starts loosing the war, since the combined forces of the UN couldn't fight North Korea and China, so the USA turns to nuclear weapons. ...

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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. ... They built weapons of mass destruction and used them as deterrents for one another. ... This false sense of security and fear is seen everywhere at this time, people were building bomb shelters, as portrayed in Life Magazine (May 1955 Edition) It ...

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This new weapon had a range of about 4000 miles, which gave it the true title of being an intercontinental rocket. ... The threat of the deadly new ICBM wasn't the American public's major concern though. ...

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After Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party rose to popular power in January of 1933, the Jews of Germany, and later all of mainland Europe, would be living in a deadly, deadly society. ... In this way, he used Jews not only as a scapegoat, but as a weapon as well. ...

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"Throughout the landing, German gunners poured deadly fire into the ranks of the invading Americans"(Rice). ... The weapons of war has changed along with everything elese during the fifty years it has been since World War II. ...

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This was one of the earliest uses of biological agents as a weapon of terrorism. Smallpox has been used on several occasions as a biological weapon. ... It was rumored that the truck contained a sodium cyanide device that malfunctioned, which would have released a cloud of deadly cyanide into the building. ...

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(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. ... 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. ... North Vietnamese fought using soviet build weapons, tanks and warplanes. ...

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It was World War I that saw the development of the submarine as an effective weapon of war. ... The German submarine campaign was so deadly that it almost succeeds in severing Britain's lifeline for good, unfortunately the allied forces began to use the convoy system (Pitt, 18). ... It was World War I that saw the development of the submarine as an effective weapon of war, but it was the Second World War that was witness to the successful U-boat campaigns. ...

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Each side stockpiles weapons and forces, which it hopes to never use but are a good asset in the war of words and threats. ... In August 1945, America dropped the world's first nuclear weapon on Hiroshima in Japan. The bomb had catastrophic effects on anything in its path and showed the world the deadly and devastating effects this weapon could have. ...

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The average soldier on the front line had to deal with lack of food and water, deadly gases, and the constant annoyance of lice and rats. ... This had limited them greatly strategically, and this may have been a factor in their defeats that used armored weapons. ...

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Alliances can benefit countries if the fear of empowerment is so great that neither opposing sides will risk war, but if the desire to create havoc is so great that it is worth the risk, then alliances can become a deadly weapon. ...

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In 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union had signed a non-aggression pact, which secretly promised Russia half of Poland, Bessarabia and the Baltic States. Germany had promised this because they were afraid of an alliance between Britain, France and the USSR. During 1940 the Soviets invaded the Baltic S...

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At the end of the greatest war in world history, two previously allied super powers stood unreservedly opposed. The United States and Soviet Union had successfully defeated Hitler and his allies throughout Europe and in the Pacific, resurrecting to positions of global supremacy and unparalleled infl...

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Here on April 22 the Germans sought to break the stalemate by introducing a new weapon, poison gas. ... German troops pressed forward threatening to sweep behind the Canadian trenches and put fifty thousand Canadian and British troops in deadly jeopardy. ...

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Everywhere they turn constant reminders of the war surround them, weapons or perhaps even people that remind them of the loathsome duties they have to carry out. ... The next line is: And flound"ring like a man in fire or lime This line sums up the groping, desperate movements of the man enveloped in this deadly gas. ...

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