Wepons Of Mass Destruction Hanbook

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Wepons of Mass Destruction Handbook
Everything you wanted to know about weapons of mass destruction but were afraid to ask!

Biological Warfare
Weapons:
Anthrax , botulinum toxin , plague , ricin , smallpox , tularemia and viral hemorrhagic fevers are on the top of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's list of biological weapons, considered "Category A" weapons most likely to be used in an attack.
"Category B" weapons are second-highest priority to the CDC, because they are fairly easy to disseminate, cause moderate amounts of disease and low fatality rates. But these weapons require specific public-health action such as improved diagnostic and detection systems. These agents include: Q fever, brucellosis, glanders, ricin, Enterotoxin B, viral encephalitis, food safety threats, water safety threats, meliodosis, psittacosis and typhus fever.
"Category C" weapons, described by the CDC as "emerging infectious disease threats," are fairly easy to obtain, produce and disseminate and can produce high rates of disease and mortality. These include the Nipah virus and Hantavirus.
Other agents some nations may use as weapons include: aflatoxin, trichothecene mycotoxins, multi-drug tuberculosis, bacteria such as trench fever and scrub typhus, viruses such as influenza and various forms of hemorrhagic fever, fungi and protozoa.
Agricultural bioterrorism could produce famine or widespread malnutrition. These include foot-and-mouth disease, mad cow disease, swine fever and karnal bunt of wheat.
Delivery Systems:
Biological weapons can be aerosolized, meaning they can be easily spread into the air and inhaled by humans. These weapons can also be put into food or water supplies, where they would be ingested. Many will also cause harm if they contact human skin.
Symptoms:
Symptoms can include flu-like symptoms, exhaustion, pneumonia, weight loss, stomach pain, diarrhea, respiratory failure and shock.
Treatment:
Biological weapons often take weeks or months to take their toll. Public health systems often can't pinpoint bioterrorism right away, because symptoms often mirror ones exhibited by a person with the common cold or the flu.
Treatments include antidotes, antibiotics, vaccines and pumping of the stomach.
Who Has It:
Russia is known to have stockpiles of various biological weapons. The United States studies some substances, such as anthrax, in laboratories. Iraq, North Korea and Syria are a few nations thought to still possess biological weapons.
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Chemical Warfare
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Other forms of chemical agents include: blood agents, including arsine, cyanogens chloride and hydrogen chloride; choking agents, including chlorine, diphosgene and phosgene; other nerve agents; and vesicants, such as distilled mustard, ethyldichloroarsine, mustard-lewisite mixture and forms of nitrogen mustard.
There are also "harassing agents," such as riot control chemicals and vomiting agents.
Toxic weapons are made from readily available material used in various industrial operations. The most common types of hazardous materials used in toxic weapons are irritants, choking agents, flammable industrial gas, water supply contaminants, oxidizers, chemical asphyxiates, incendiary gases and liquids, industrial compounds and organophosphate pesticides.
Various forms of toxic waste, such as petroleum spills, smoke, refuse, sewage and medical waste also can be used in toxic warfare. Toxic warfare has been used often in recent years.
Delivery Systems:
Skin contact, inhalation or eye contact are possible delivery systems. Chemicals can also be deployed via commercial handheld agricultural sprayers, crop dusters, spray tanks on aircraft or ships, via munitions delivered in gravity bombs, or in warheads on ballistic or cruise missiles. Water and food contamination is also possible.
Symptoms:
Symptoms can range from burning or blistering of the skin and eyes, coughing, respiratory disease, dizziness, nausea, drowsiness, headache, convulsions, involuntary defecation and urination, twitching, jerking and miosis, which is the excessive contraction of eye pupils.
Treatment:
Methods used to relieve suffering include antibiotics, antidotes, painkillers, dressings for skin burns, rinsing of eyes and skin and scrubbing of the skin with bleach or other household cleaning agents.
Who Has It:
There are reports the Al Qaeda terror network has tried to make various chemical weapons. Russia and the United States have known stockpiles of sarin. It is also thought India, South Korea and Syria, among others, also have supplies of various nerve agents.
It is not clear how secure such nations can keep these supplies. Such weapons are attractive to terrorist groups because they are easily accessible, the parts to make them are generally legal and cheap to obtain.
As a result, many military and terrorism experts believe there will be an increasing trend in the use of such weapons.
Crazy151drinker

Anyone here ever wiffed some CS gas?? Oh the pleasure!!! Works great in riots.....
ThiChi

Nuclear Warfare
Symptoms:
If people don't die from the initial impact of the blast, depending on the dose of radiation received, victims may experience vomiting, headache, fatigue, weakness, thermal burn-like skin effects, secondary infections, recurring bleeding and hair loss and long-term effects such as cancer or birth defects.
Treatment:
Clothing is to be taken off immediately and sealed in an airtight container. Victims should wash themselves off completely with soap and water or with bleach, if necessary. Treatment may also include stomach pumping, laxatives and giving patients various substances to decrease the absorption of radiation in the body's cells and tissue.
Who Has It:
The United States has a stockpile of 12,500 nuclear weapons and 103 power plants. Russia has a similar supply. The United Nation's International Atomic Energy Agency oversees 900 of the world's nuclear facilities. Pakistan and India have both exploded nuclear devices in test blasts. Israel and North Korea are two countries believed to possess nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons continue to be a proliferation concern, particularly when North Korea recently announced it was continuing its nuclear arms program, and withdrew from the international Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
One worry of the United States is not so much that North Korea itself will use what weapons it has, but that it will have no qualms about selling them to the highest bidder, whether that bidder be a nation such as Iraq, which sponsors terrorism, or individual terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda.
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Radiological Warfare
Weapons:
Dirty Bomb.
Delivery Systems:
Methods of detonating a dirty bomb include devices such as bombs or artillery shells used to disperse harmful radioactive material. This weapon can be used to contaminate livestock, fish and food crops. Most radioactive material isn't soluble in water, so that virtually rules it out as a way for terrorists to contaminate reservoirs or other water supplies.
Terrorists could launch a systemic attack on a nuclear power plant by venting or overloading a reactor so it acts as a radiological weapon.
Symptoms:
Symptoms can range from mild effects, such as skin reddening, to cancer and death.
Acute radiation syndrome radiation sickness is usually caused when a person gets a high dose of radiation in mere minutes and can cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhea; later, bone marrow depletion may lead to weight loss, loss of appetite, flu-like symptoms, infection and bleeding.
Treatment:
Radiation victims should take off their clothes and wash themselves with soap and water using bleach if necessary. Hospital workers will provide treatment depending on the amount of radiation received.
Who Has It:
Iraq and Al Qaeda are just two of the countries and/or terrorist groups believed to have dirty bombs. Virtually every country, however, has the materials to make them. Insecure nuclear facilities throughout the world compound the problem.
Satanus

The United States studies some substances, such as anthrax, in laboratories.
Are you claiming that the US govt doesn't stock or actively develop biological weapons? This is a joke, right?
What about depleted uranium in the forms of bullets, anti-tank shells commonly used by US military on foriegn soil? Parts of yugoslavia are irreversably polluted w du. It continues to kill and maime, and will do so untold yrs to come. It spreads throughout the environment by nature itself. It was also responsible for sickening some desert storm one forces. Through a combination of du vapors, experimental vaccinations and bio agents that they were exposed to over there, almost half desert storm one vets are on disability programs.
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ThiChi

These types of wepons were outlawed by UN resolution and other lesser agreements. And removal confirmed...where have you been?
Edited by - thichi on 29 January 2003 19:1:22
Edited by - thichi on 29 January 2003 19:13:6
Emiliano

Satan you are right, the US is the country responsible for the most terror since WWII.
Grunt

Emiliano,
Do you just like to make statements without proof? Maybe you are marginalized somehow and blame the USA for it? What acts of "terror" are you speaking about??? What country do you see as being a "good" country that has never been guilty of any acts of terror??? Have you read any of the "fatwas" the Islamists have written calling for the death of men, women and children of western nations, especially the USA? Can you avoid seeing these so called "warriors" as cowards??? The only way they can fight and kill any Americans seems to be by pretending to be passengers or students. Their most effective method of combat is to strap demolitoins to their body and blow themselves up in a rest. or on a bus. These "brave" men only do because they think they are going to get all kinds of rewards, which just makes them gullible fools as well as cowards who only dare fight women, chiildren and the unsuspecting. Our only fear of these people comes from the possibility that they might SNEAK somewhere and use poison or disease. What a pathetic bunch. To light some explosive shoes on an airline, to spread some ricin in England, these are their goals.
On the other hand now women in Afghanistan are driving again and living a real life of sorts again. I think we did real well in Afghanistan. The only mistake we made was trusting someone other than ourselves to hem in Bin Laden. Over there they call it surrounded when they shut up three sides of a square. If they shut up all four sides it would make for a worse fight and a lot smaller bribe. Had it been Kilo Company, 3rd Bn. 3rd Marines holding the sack shut we'd have his ass. He claimed he wanted to be a Martyr, Ha, guess he changed his mind. As I write this the army is hounding a little pack of fanatics who fired on US troops (they are poor shots and rarely hit anyone unless they can pretend they need directions or help and get them up close with their guard down like the Marine they managed to shoot, of course the other Marines heard the shots and killed them at their next stop) dropping 2000 lb. bombs on them, I think eighteen of them have been killed as they scurry around in the rocks hunting a hole. Are you under the impression that eighty men hiding in holes in remote mountains is a victory of some kind??? They would rather be back on the soccer fields of the city using it as an execution site, or on the street corners whipping women, but instead the Americans they swore were too cowardly to ever set foot on their land, the ones they swore they would defeat as they did the Russians, are in town with the allies feeding people, starting schools, supporting a democracy and trying to undo some of the damage these running dogs did. The western soldiers who are there risking their lives don't do it for any promises of "Paradise."
Wake up. Read a history book. If you want to read about some wasted lives look up Cambodia, or Rwanda, Big Daddy Amin, Pol Pot, or maybe the Sudan. Slaves are still bought and sold there by Arabs or Arab wannabees.
Grunt

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