What Are Weapons Of Mass Distraction?

Decent Essays
Anthony,
It is true that Weapons of Mass Distraction or, WMD come in many divergent forms. That being said, there are many advantages to using a chemical, or biological weapons instead of a nuclear one. You made many horrific points throughout your post. he death total from a nuclear strike would for the most part be instant whereas a chemical one could infect more victims over a longer period of time.

Related Documents

  • Superior Essays

    During war though, most military units have the proper personal protective equipment to guard against a chemical attack. On a side note, if mixed with other agents, Chlorine has more lethal…

    • 950 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Statute S. C. 674

    • 350 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Statute U.S.C. § 678 provides that it is an unlawful act for any person to ‘knowingly develop, produce, otherwise acquire, transfer directly or indirectly, receive, stockpile, retain, own possess or use or threaten to use any chemical weapon’. Chemical weapon is defined as ‘a toxic chemical and its precursors …any chemical which through chemical action on life processes can cause death, temporary incapacitation or permanent harm to humans or animals…includes all such chemicals, regardless of their origin or of their method of production and regardless of whether they are produced in facilities, in munitions of elsewhere.’ Purposes not prohibited by the statute include ‘peaceful purposes – any peaceful purpose related to an industrial, agricultural,…

    • 350 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    During World War I, The United States developed the Chemical Warfare Service, and briefly conducted research on a lethal, natural, plant protein called ricin, but after the signing of the Geneva Protocol, which prohibited "asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices" and "bacteriological methods of warfare," all research on chemical weapons were officially terminated. However, as The United States’ involvement in conflict and their provisional list of enemies began to grow, they once again began to fund a biological defense programs such as the U.S Army Chemical Corps and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense. Currently, The United States is openly conducting research on vaccines and antiviruses that could be used to combat diseases that could be used in Biological…

    • 777 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ww1 Chemical Warfare

    • 1269 Words
    • 6 Pages

    The use of Chemical Warfare in World War 1 was horrifying as many soldiers would say. Chemical gases were used as a physical weapon as much as a psychological weapon. The first major gas attack happened on January 31, 1915 when over 18,000 tear gas shells rained down on the russian lines but as surprising as it may seem the gas did little to no effect on the russian lines as one soldier said “The results left him disappointed” (Pruszewicz, 2015). Even tho the first gasses weren't that effective they did open the door for the research of more deadly and effective gases. Everyone started to see the potential havoc gases could bring down on the enemy forces.…

    • 1269 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Ptd Vietnam War

    • 1449 Words
    • 6 Pages

    The repercussions and side effects of the use of Agent Orange and other deforestation agents as well as Napalm, as an incendiary weapon, had dramatic, far reaching, and unforeseen impacts on the Vietnamese people. As stated before, Agent Orange led to severe birth defects in children whose parent or parents were exposed, both American and Vietnamese alike. Unlike Agent Orange the American casualties of Napalm were more of a result of accident than design. Unlike Agent Orange Napalm was a weapon designed to kill. Napalm is considered a weapon of mass destruction due to the very nature of the substance.…

    • 1449 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “”Weapons of Mass Distraction”: Censorship in the U.S. Practicing your right to freedom of speech becomes difficult when obstacles such as place, time, and manner limitations of free speech are present. Also known as censorship. It can be difficult to break away from the regulations put on citizens of the United States by the government and to voice our opinions when one has to be cautious of what is being printed, communicated, and advertised, etc. Juan Williams describes this difficulty in his essay, “Defying the PC Police”.…

    • 348 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    1. The United Nations defines chemical and bacteriological weapons as chemical agents or chemical substances that are either gaseous, liquid or solid and are use due to its toxicity and harmful effects towards animals, plants and humans. Furthermore, bacteriological agents of warfare are living organism, that as well as chemical weapons, are intended to cause disease or death in animals, plants, and humans. The difference is that bacteriological weapons “depend for their effects on their ability to multiply in the person, animal, or plant attacked” (p. 203). The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention prohibited the use of biological weapons, and it was signed by 103 nations.…

    • 1702 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Some Actions are taking place today with Nuclear threats between the U.S. and North Korea. As Ms. Hanham said in an interview from Monterey California, “The frustration I have is borne out of how casually we've started to talk about [nuclear weapons] as tools”. This is a complete different time and due to advancements, people realize bombings are effective but it has been used to fright others since it’s such a powerful resource, if it’s ever needed. However, a terrible threat toward another country should be taken seriously. It was risky to use a bomb like this if other countries had something similar it could have made thing worse but this risk was beneficial and saved the war from an unknowing future, which would have most likely been…

    • 784 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Has war ever been the most unnecessary way of winning a competition? Seems like one of the worst ways to get things under control. Why do we need dead bodies lying across the land for no particular reason? That is why the atomic bomb should be talked about. An atomic bomb is one of the most destructive ways of ending all problems.…

    • 924 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The reason why nuclear bombs haven’t been used since World War II is because it’s expensive making nuclear bombs. The United States have weapons with unbelievable destructive power. Nuclear bombs are so deadly that it has the ability to destroy places and kill people that are far away in only minutes. Nuclear weapons are deadly weapons.…

    • 232 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Weapons of War on the Streets of America There once was a time when police work consisted of investigation, gathering evidence, and making an arrest based on that evidence. Today, the role of police officers is much different. Many people living in the United States are now fearful of police officers and for very good reasons. Reading the news daily, one is sure to find a story involving the murder of a civilian by a police officer.…

    • 954 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Nuclear warfare has not been used in most war scenarios but it has been used in a few desperate occasion. On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, which ended WWII shortly after. The decision to drop the bomb has been criticized even before it was ever dropped. The use of the atomic bomb was justified because the bomb was the quickest way to end the war and saved millions of American lives. Not only did the bomb save more lives but also a recovering economy.…

    • 1115 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    August 6th and 9th 1945, the world was introduced to a new type of, ‘conventional weapon’. The atomic bomb. The dropping of these missiles on Japanese cities were not justified. It violated basic humanitarian treaties. Nuclear weapons have a capacity to unleash ‘hell on earth’.…

    • 713 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    March 20 2003 was the day everything changed, this was the day American troops stepped foot onto the foreign desert land that. US now know of as Iraq. Many people have their own opinion about if the United States made the right decision deciding to go to war with this country. So, although the US gained much intel, helped locals and executed Saddam….. Was it the right decision considering all the consequences (good and bad) of the invading and picking apart of Iraq.…

    • 1363 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Nuclear weapons were introduced into the world in 1945 ending the WW2. They were made to “protect” innocent people of the world, however, it ended up hurting and threatening them. We know what nuclear weapons can do, it has both short term effects and long term effects, but yet we still construct more and more of them. In total, there are about 23 000 nuclear weapons in the world with Russia and the United States owning most of them (Walker, Countdown to Zero). Clearly, that is way too much weapons that cause mass destructions.…

    • 1186 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays