The applications for nuclear power theoretically are endless, but when used as a weapon its end results are mass casualties and lethal damage to property and person. The nuclear stockpiles, across the globe, grew tremendously in the cold war era of the 1980s. The race was on to acquire and produce as many nuclear weapons as possible. It became a notion of pride for countries to possess nuclear weapons and the numbers of these potentially devastating weapons continued to grow. .
Chemical and Biological Weapons - Use of lethal chemical compounds or biological agents to cause harm to life and damage to property. Sophisticated weapons such as bombs, missiles, or simpler methods such as fertilizer planes and other strategic delivery systems can deliver these weapons. .
Biological and Chemical weapons share similar characteristics except for two major differences. Biological weapons consist of live cellular-organisms as opposed to chemical compositions in chemical weapons. The other difference is the time it takes to show results. Effects of chemical weapons can be seen almost immediately as opposed to biological agents - which can take days or even weeks to show harm or damage.
Biological weapons when used consequent their damage to organic destruction while doing little or no damage to the physical infrastructure. Chemical weapons, on the other hand, are multifaceted in their destruction. Chemical weapons can cause physical infrastructure damage, such as when used in the form of TNT or napalm, and organic life destruction, such as when used in the form of nerve gas and blister agents.
Biological and Chemical weapons have been used in war to enhance military capability and their use has become more prevalent. However, one of the predominant disadvantages and cause for uproar amongst its opponents is the users inability to adequately contain the damage to a parametric area.
