Chemical warfare

The President depicted the general context in Syria to describe how devastated the Syria was after being attacked by the chemical weapon. He said, “The images from this massacre are sickening, men, women foaming at the mouth, grasping for breath, a father clutching his dead children, imploring them to get up and walk”. Obama intentionally noticed the image of children in his…

Chemical weapons are known for being one of the most dangerous and destructive weapons ever made. They cause terror and destruction at the hands of people who use them with the slightest of ease. They are banned by the UN, along with nuclear weapons, but what is a chemical weapon, and could there be a non banned or acceptable use for one. Chemical weapons are not as cut and dry as we often believe, and there could quite possibly be a non banned weapon now, depending on judgement. To know what…

The War Came Home This statement might seem small to few but for the nearly six million British and German soldiers that were disabled due to World War 1, it was the truth.(When) Every day the men had to look at their injuries and diseases and see them as a shadow of war. Both sides, the British and the Germans, fought in the same war and had similar wounds that fellow citizens couldn’t imagine carrying with them every day. In the span of fifty-two months over 9.5 million soldiers were murdered…

Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) weapons, also referred to as weapons of mass destruction (WMD), continue to pose a significant threat to all living things on earth. WMD are very different from conventional weapons. These weapons can be used in several different ways and the effects can range from environmental destruction, to incapacitating humans or animals, or even killing them. The Department of Defense (DOD) Strategy for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction is…

The Tokyo Subway Sarin Attack, was considered a domestic terrorism. On March 20, 1995 Japan’s First chemical warfare attack occur. On a Monday morning, what seemed to be normal day in Kasumigaseki subway station. A disasters was about to occur. This act was caused by the members of Aum Shinrikyo, whom had 10 participants. This terrorism was considered to be religious attack. It’s mission was to take upon himself as well as others the sins the people or “world” as he called. Also he claimed that…

“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war” Claims Enrich Remarques’s in the epigraph of the novel. This quote summarizes the novel and the terrorizing experience soldiers encountered during the war. This quotes is significant because it unveils a different…

but it soon followed. Those who did not fall ran trying to abandon the clouds of smoke, but this was no regular smoke (Kennedy 53). It was chlorine gas that German forces used to initiate large-scale chemical warfare during World War I at the Second Battle of Ypres, which affected the use of chemical weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. World War I began in Ypres on October 7, 1914, when German forces troops entered from the southeast through the Menin Gate and from the south through…

many young soldiers, by being carried in the slow movements of clouds, that released these gases on the soldiers as they passed over. Prior to World War I, this form of weaponry was considered to be uncivilized, but with the stalemates of trench warfare, countries began searching for a new mass weapon, and poison gas became an ideal choice. The French were believed to be the first users of tear-gas grenades on Germans, during the first months of World War I. Though, it wasn't until the Germans…

believing “The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est” (27), that it was sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. He wrote the poem Dulce et Decorum Est to clearly refute the message espoused by many, that war is glorious, by bringing to life the horrors of warfare through vivid imagery. This was accomplished by exposing the gruesome conditions the soldiers fought through, vividly describing the death of one of the soldiers, and revealing the dreadful nightmares that haunted the soldiers who survived…

Throughout history, few conflicts have been that horrific like the First World War. Being one of its combatants, the English poet Wilfred Owen was one of the first to question military propaganda which defended the old Latin proverb: “Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori”; meaning ‘it is sweet and glorious to die for one’s country’. With nothing else than words, he created a distinguished and innovative masterpiece that condemned the grandeur of war by picturing how cruel and deranged the…