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Chemical and biological warfare

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. This gas has been used frequently .
             by police to stop riots. But other chemicals can be fatal just in one breath.
             The history of biological and chemical weapons goes way back. Biological and chemical arsenals are not a new tactic to war. Humans have developed primitive forms of biological warfare for thousands of years. In medival times, corpses were catapulted into an enemy's fortress. The body would be infected with a deadly disease that would spread within the enclosed walls of the castle. This tactic was used by the romans. Disease infected bodies were also put into streams near the enemies castle. This would make the enemies water supply .
             infested with deadly micro organisms. The oldest record use of grem warfare dates .
             back to 600 BC, when the athenians used hellebores (skunk cabbage) to contaminate the river .
             Peloponnesian. The first use of poisonous gas was in the Peloponnesian war between 431-404 .
             BC. In World War 1, biological and chemical arsenals started to be used in large scale attacks. .
             A abandoned island named Gruinard off the coast of Britian was dedicated to experimenting .
             with biological weapons. No one is allowed to live there or even land on the island and all .
             information was regarded classified. The first victims were sheep, they were bought from local .
             farmers and shipped to the island. The three leading scientists that were invloved in the .
             experiment were a bacteriologist named Dr. David Henderson, Graham Sutton who was in .
             charge of of the experimental work and explosive expert Major Allan Younger. The scientists .
             goal was to see if they could create a biological bomb. They filled a bomb with brown, thick .
             goo. Also known as Anthrax. This virus was considered the most efficent bacteria for a .
             biological weapon because it was very infectious and deadly.


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