Aerial warfare

In the days of asymmetrical warfare: chemical weapons are a mainstay. Chemical warfare has introduced a powerful weapon called blood agents; considered one of the most deadly. No one organization is a primary source of blood agents, but they are a threat of the destruction of organs within a living organism; the human body. The reduced cost of warfare by these agents increases the bang for the buck with less quantity storage or hiding in plain sight made accessible. Past events such as the Tokyo…

QUESTIONS for The Hot Zone by Richard Preston PART ONE: “THE SHADOW OF MOUNT ELGON” 1. Charles monet was a loner who lived by himself in a little wooden cabin on the private lands of Nzoia sugar factory. He was fifty-six years old and his job was to take care of the sugar factory’s water pumping machinery. 2.Mount Elgon is a volcano located on the border Uganda and Kenya, Mount Elgon is an extinct shield volcano. 3.Monet gave the virus many opportunities to accumulate a new host, For…

Shiro Ishii, the man behind the experimentations of Unit 731. Coming from a wealthy family and he was “an extremely bright young man who gained entrance to Kyoto Imperial University” (Source). He later became known as Surgeon General Shiro Ishii. The education that he had, allowed Ishii to be able to become an army medical officer, microbiologist and the director of Unit 731. His years of service ranged from 1921 to 1945. As soon as his service reached its end, Ishii decided to use his former…

Zach Taylor English 10B Jennifer Atwood Period 5 Battle of Verdun “Four days and four nights - ninety-six hours - the last two days in ice-cold mud - kept under relentless fire, without any protection whatsoever except for the narrow trench, which even seemed to be too wide. I arrived with 175 men, I returned with 34 of whom several had half turned insane” (French captain, 1916). The death and suffering of the First World War were unlike anything that had happened before its time.…

Throughout war, there are many changes that can occur. People can change both in their character and personalities. Transformations occur through the whole book. People have to deal with the terrible war in Vietnam. It is very hard for the soldiers to adjust to the rough terrain and appalling climates. When someone comes into a place or environment they have never been before, there can be many reactions from them. Certain situations can bring feelings that someone would have never thought they…

What will end up being the killer of man? At some point we’ve probably all heard the phrase “technology is advancing too fast for our own good”, but is it really? In this day and age we now possess technology advanced enough to wipe all of mankind off the earth, or even destroy the earth itself. There are thousands of nuclear bombs in the world sitting dormant, waiting to be launched at their targets. Do we really want us, ignorant humans, which make our decisions based off feelings and morals…

The arms race. A competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare that occurred before and during the Cold War. In this time, both the US and the Soviet Union were competing for supremacy. When the power of the nuclear weapon was discovered, both the United States and the Soviet Union believed that the more nuclear weapons they had, the more powerful they were. Thus the arms race began. Both of these countries aimed to create more and more nuclear weapons in order to have the upper hand which had…

resistant to medicine just as our bodies could resist to some sicknesses. In the book Biological Terrorism by Steve Goodwin and Randall W. Phillis they present a history of microorganism used to help cure diseases and misused by Medics, and biological warfare. To combat sickness scientist have studied ways to reduce deaths caused by diseases by developing vaccines. The use of vaccinations aids a sick person to cure a certain viruses like the flu or small pox. “The idea behind a vaccine is to…

The plan was simple, practically unbeatable, and a sure win for the Allies. Nothing could possibly allow it to fail. The Battle of the Somme was a complete military blunder when the fight broke out on that dreadful July 1st morning in 1916, to when it ended on November 18th, 1916. Despite the fact that the French needed relief from the German’s at Verdun, the Somme Offensive was only supposed to be a short battle. What it turned into was a mass killing of numerous troops on both sides of the…

Billy Stevens was just a regular teenage boy. He went to school, had friends that he consorted with, had parents who loved him. Life was normal for him. Until the war started. Hundreds of thousands of boys his age enlisted to fight for the cause. Despite his mother’s wishes, Stevens did too. He was hoping to find action, adventure, and glory on the battlefield. What he found instead was a trauma that he would never get over. Billy Stevens experienced many forms of trauma during his service in…