Biological agent

Anthrax, smallpox and plague potential bioterrorism agents and are caused by microbial pathogens. Bioterrorism is the deliberate release of viruses, bacteria, or other germs (agents) used to cause illness or death in people, animals, or plants. These agents are typically found in nature, but it is possible that they could be changed to increase their ability to cause disease, make them resistant to current medicines, or to increase their ability to be spread into the environment. These…

Use of biological weapons may have seemed like child’s play compared to the looming threat of total nuclear war, but it had more precedence during the era than one would expect. Although biological weapons are overshadowed by nuclear warfare concerns, they were and can be significant threats and assets to America’s national security. Biological weapons are known for their inconspicuousness and effectiveness, yet their lethalness is still overlooked…

banned in the international community by the Geneva Protocol in 1925, the research and development of biological and chemical weapons was permissible until the Protocols were amended in 1975. However, a lack of enforceability by any international governing body allowed a nation like South Africa to secretly create its own such program, one that operated unchecked and actively employed its toxins and agents throughout the 1980s. With apartheid as the nation’s backdrop, the ruling power of South…

December 1969 by the successor of the League, The United Nations, in Resolution 2603A (XXIV), citing that the Geneva Protocol “embodies the generally recognized rules of international law prohibiting the use in international armed conflicts of all biological and chemical methods of warfare, regardless of any technical developments.” Adopted 83-3 with 36 abstentions, the resolution indicates “although the vote cannot be regarded as a resounding affirmation[... there is] a very substantial amount…

Man has used biological weapons such as poisons for assassinating enemies for hundreds of years. Since the beginning of time, biological warfare has been a preferred method to annihilate populations at a time. Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is described as using biological agents like bacteria, viruses and fungi as biological weapons on a large scale to defeat the enemy. The main intention of such is to cause casualties by the medium of air, water, cattle or crops. The history…

Biological terrorism, known as bioterrorism, is becoming an increasing danger to Western civilization. The possibility of terrorists obtaining extremely dangerous chemicals is rising alarmingly fast. In a biological attack, many people are likely to die or get extremely ill within the first few minutes, whereas in a normal bombing or shootout, fewer would be killed, and in a less inhumane manner, even though all forms of terrorism are unacceptable and will not be tolerated without any…

The infected bioterrorist, could check into a resort hotel and await the onset of the fever that would indicate that their Zaire ebolavirus is now contagious. The next phase of the attack would begin with the infected, and contagious, terrorist making visits to Walt Disney World, restaurants, or other areas with crowds of people. The Florida heat and humidity would provide perfect cover for the feverish and sweating terrorist as they make physical contact by way of casual brushing up against…

As mentioned, bioterrorism agents can be modified and engineered to kill people slowly and effectively. Mass producing these bio threats by foreign and local terrorist, is inexpensive and easy transport undetected across the borders into the United States, due to the fact that it would take days or months before the first person would become ill. Some agents can be spread without any contact from another human or animal. For instance through weaponing of a bio agent, which is the process of…

Botha and the military gained increasing control of the apartheid apparatus and created a self-reinforcing cycle where disturbances, which were often caused by the state’s severe tactics, were used as excuses to develop nuclear, chemical, and biological…

Many people think that conventional HVAC systems can filter out a chemical and biological threats if they are aerosolized. That is wrong, for a few reasons, a terrorists chemical or bio-weapon that becomes airborne is not suspect to being neutralized in a conventional HVAC system. If no chemical processes are used in the HVAC systems, such as deionization of UV light exposure to all particles passing through the systems, the weapon will still get some of the original concentration through the…