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    Smallpox Research Paper

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    president of the United States Richard Nixon ended America’s biological warfare program. His administration led the world in advocating the first multilateral disarmament treaty in 1972, which banned possession of such agents except for research into vaccines and treatments. But when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global eradication of smallpox in 1980, Soviet officials recognized the potential of this agent as an exceptional biological weapon. The American government was unaware of the tremendous

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    often overlooked when talking about WWII atrocities, perhaps because it is not taught in the secondary education curriculum. Unit 731 was a top secret Japanese medical unit during the cold war that focused on producing biological and bacteriological weapons during WWII. While biological and bacteriological are, by many, considered to be inhumane in nature, Unit 731 went even further by partaking in human experimentation in order to achieve greater knowledge about these weapons, and to gain knowledge

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    have issues in looking after them in which causes damaging effects on the children. However, George is faced with an opportunity to get a job with a decent pay to work in a laboratory which pursues research into biological and chemical warfare. George is against chemical and biological warfare and he wants to refuse the job. The issue is made clear that George’s refusal will not make the laboratory or job go away and there is person interested in the job and if he were appointed he would most likely

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    Harvard Medical School which tested how the uses of the internet could include proving education on preventive health measures to the public. She married Harvard geneticist and molecular biologist Matthew Meselson in 1986. He was an anti-chemical and biological weapons advocate, and with this came her interest in the manipulation of biomedical science by government weapons programs. She became involved in Meselson’s analysis of suspected abuse of international arms control contracts by the Soviet Union

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    both in war and terrorism chemical, biological or radiological agent can be used. In any of these situations, significant social, environmental and economical impact would occur. Casualties following disasters, and major accidents could escalate very rapidly if necessary preventive methods are not followed. Infectious disease disasters consist of biological attack, emerging infectious disease outbreaks, and pandemics. There are a broad range of potential biological agents, including bacteria, viruses

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    Anthrax: A Deadly Biological Weapon Essay

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    Biological weapons are a widely used source of terror. The definition of a biological weapon is a harmful biological agent (as a pathogenic microorganism or a neurotoxin) used as a weapon to cause death or disease usually on a large scale (“Biological Weapon,” The Merriam- Webster Dictionary). There are numerous substances used as biological weapons. Some include Glanders, Botulism, and Brucellosis. Biological weapons consist of a kind of substance or disease that is used to launch an attack on

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    BIOTERRORISM DEFINITION   Bioterrorrism comes the word bio and terrorism.Bio comes the word biological agent while terrorism is violence and threats to intimidate and force people to follow some rules especially when it related to politics. So bioterrorism means sudden outbreak of biological agent dissemination for violence and to threats to intimidate people. They deliberate release these biological agent such as viruses, bacteria, toxin or germs and cause death to innocent people. Viruses have

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    arises. The relation between warfare and mankind is undeniably interwoven which is asserted by our knowledge. Humans have utilized their ability to question, improvise and create remarkable technologies but at the cost of their own destruction. Disease, battles, injuries have accounted for a large number of deaths and loss of conflict capability than the actual war itself. With the developing technologies being generated man has left no stone unturned in utilizing biological agents for the destruction

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    Pdf Level 3 Unit 732

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    whose eyes drooped and arms rotted. The noise flew past a few soldiers loading a biological weapon into a plane. The scream landed upon the ears of a scientist who stood inches away from that horrible cry, and continued his work, uncaring of a heart beating at his fingertips. He was the sole spectator and sole perpetrator of this person’s death through live dissection. This was what happened in Japan’s biological warfare experimental camp from 1935 to 1945. The camp was made possible by the Manchurian

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    known as biological weapons because biological agents are used in bioweapon formation. Biological weapons are toxic materials produced from biological agents such as bacteria, protozoa, fungi, and viruses to kill humans, animals, food and food crop or plants usually on a large scale. Biological weapons are the living organism that reproduces within their host victims. Biological weapons also known as germ warfare, is the deliberate use of disease–causing organisms. The way that biological weapon is

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