The Four Main Types Of Radiological And Nuclear Terrorism

Biological warfare is war waged with deadly chemicals, biological agents, or radioactive materials (CBR). They can be used to kill large amounts of people, destroy food, or just temporarily stun them for a matter of time so troops can come in and torture them or do whatever troops led by an manipulative tyrant who destroys everything. Using CBR, allowed you to kill everything and leave the buildings standing instead of nuclear weapons which destroy everything, put fallout in the air, and have radioactive materials wash into the ground and streams. Using deadly chemicals in war has been going on since the early 1900’s during World War I (1914-1918). Chemicals such as tear gas, chlorine gas, phosgene, and mustard gas. The first 3 are things

These biological agents could be viruses, toxins, bacteria, etc. Agents could be used in war or terrorist attacks. Also, they could be modified to cause extreme diseases and disorders, according to The Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It makes bioterrorism even more tempting to use as it is easy and inexpensive to produce, disseminate and can cause a more widespread panic than other acts of terrorism (1).

Chemical terrorism is the use of natural or synthetic substances such as mustard gas to kill a group of civilians (Freedmen 1). There is also such thing as bioterrorism. Bioterrorism is the use of a biological weapon against a civilian population such as smallpox and fungus (Hoyel 1). Chemical and biological terrorism is very dangerous because it intends to kill a lot of people at a time. Terrorists can get their hands on chemicals but it is much easier for them to get biologics (biological agents) because they are harder to detect and are cheaper to make.

Imagine this: you wake up hours before your alarm sounds to find your entire neighborhood in chaos; people running, robbing banks and stores, and bodies are littering the once calm streets. Over the night, a government-run biological experiment dealing with germ weapons had been released, infecting, destroying, and causing panic across the globe. As a single, globalized society, we need to heighten our security against biological weapons and biological terror to prevent the endangerment of mankind. It would be most beneficial to our species if we did not try to use or experiment with biological weapons, seeing as they are engineered specifically to create social, economic, governmental, military, and general fear and disruption. Bioterror

Bioterrorism is the deliberate release of viruses, bacteria, toxins or other harmful agents to cause illness or death in people, livestock, or crops. These agents are typically found in nature, but could be mutated or altered to increase their ability to cause disease, make them resistant to current medicines, or to increase their ability to be spread into the environment. Bacillus anthracis is one of the most popular agents to be used in a bioterrorism attack. Anthrax could be used in many forms, for example, it can be placed into letters and mailed, much like the 2001 anthrax attack, anthrax can be released into the air where the spores can be easily blown by the wind and inhaled or can be carried around on objects such as people’s clothes to which it has

Bioterrorism is directly focused on the livestock and crops, which are valuable sources of food. The agroterrorism attack in the U.S. has started an economic warfare, which can turn fatal to most Americans. Economic warfare has calculated of being damaging to the

According to Powerpoint on Select Agents and Toxins in Module 2, a select agent is a biological agent that has the potential to pose a severe threat to animal health and safety, plant health and safety, or to the safety of animal or plant products. Biosecurity is a set of procedures intended to protect humans or animals against disease or harmful biological agents, according to Module 1, Biosecurity and the Importance of Invasive Species. According to the CDC video, "History of Bioterrorism" in Module 2, bioterrorism is the use of weapons of viruses, bacteria, and other germs for an attack. Ricin is a poison found naturally in beans (Select Agents and Toxins Module 2 Powerpoint). It prevents cells from making protein. If inhaled, it can cause

, and lone actors inspired by terror propaganda. Unconventional threats, although difficult to obtain and employ, potentially provide a large payoff to any terror organization when utilized and thus are attractive to those seeking to instill fear, degrade an economy, or attempt to influence policy. A subset of the terrorism threat is the realm of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) hazards. Within this particular subset, there are innumerable methods a terror cell may use to accomplish their goals and a careful analysis of available materials, capabilities, desired effects, and costs versus benefits helps narrow the most likely forms

Chemicals that attack the nervous system are very powerful and can cause death within minutes of inhalation. Nerve agents work by blocking the transmission of nerve messages within the body (“Chemical and Biological Warfare”). “A single drop of nerve agent can shut down the entire body’s nervous system in a few minutes” (“Chemical and Biological Warfare”).

There were around fourteen attacks all in different countries that led to over four thousand deaths (statista.com). According to the FBI there are two basic types of terrorism which are domestic and international. The different types are based off of where the attack took place and the objectives that were made. Domestic terrorism can be defined in many different ways but the FBI defines it as the threatened us of force by a group of people. This can also be done by a single person but both either a group or a person does the attack inside of the United States. The international terrorism is any acts that are against a person’s life and is illegal (statista.com). Even though the FBI states there is only two types of terrorism, the National

There are many types of chemical agents that can be used for a variety of effects. Most are not meant to be lethal, but most chemicals at high concentrations can be lethal.

The current and greatest threats to the United States are chemical and biological weapons because of the difficulty in detection, the element of surprise and the mass casualty scenarios they would pose. “Chemicals present an attractive weapon for terrorists because they are easy to control, and unlike biological weapons, the users can avoid the area they attack” (White, 2017, p. 107). Hurricane Harvey, its damage to an organic peroxide plant and the subsequent hazardous emissions from it is a current event example of the dangers and vulnerabilities of hazardous material production in the United States. “Chemical agents can cause significant morbidity, are relatively inexpensive, and are easy to store and use” (Chalela & Burnett, 2012). Therefore, terrorist look at vulnerable chemical plants and the distribution of these chemicals via railways and highways as a viable target to cause a large-scale mass causality event that could quickly overwhelm critical infrastructures.

Until the mid seventies, the term nuclear terror was used predominately to describe the threat of a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union. Since then, however, it has taken on a whole new meaning which many security experts feel poses a more serious threat to national security. In the past few decades, formal terrorist organizations have exploded planes out of the sky, bombed US military and diplomatic facilities abroad, and with the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombing incidents, they have even launched attacks on American soil.

Many of the disadvantages of biological weapons use relate to difficulties in executing an attack. For example, it is difficult to protect workers during the processes of production, transportation, and delivery, while immunization maybe ineffective or simply irrelevant. The danger that biological agents can also affect the health of the aggressor forces, the dependence on prevailing winds and other weather conditions on effective dispersion, the effects of temperature, sunlight, and desiccation on the survivability of some infectious organisms. Also the environmental persistence of some agents, such as spore-forming anthrax bacteria, which can make an, area un inhabitable for long periods, the possibility that secondary aerosols of the agent

Biological weapon can be defined as any kind of organism such as the bacteria, fungi or viruses, or any toxin (poisonous compounds that are produced by organisms) that can be used to kill the host or kill/injure human beings. There are varying acts of bioterrorism ranging from a hoax to actual use of these biological weapons or agents. Of late, a very significant number of countries are pursuing the ownership or possession of biological weapons and there is a growing concern among many nations that there is a possibility of terrorist groups having access to the weapons or the knowledge of making such weapons and using tem to kill an individual or a population (Daniel J Dire, 2011).