The focus and the item discussed today will be about Chemical Weapons. The chemical weapon is a device that uses chemicals formulated to inflict death or harm to human beings. The following are some of the questions that will be answered in my paper. What was society like before the discovery of chemical weapons? How did natural resources limit or advance chemical weapons? How are chemical weapons affecting society today? Lastly, what impact will chemical weapons have on the future of the world?
In this paragraph, I will be answering the question what was society like before the discovery of chemical weapons? The use of chemical compounds as well as biological materials dates back to biblical times. Greek historian, Thucydides recorded the use of arsenic smoke by the Spartans against the Athenin city of Delium. During the Peloponnesian war in 425A.D, the use of poisons fell out of favor in the 18th and 19th century. The British in the Crimean war rejected the use of cacodyl and cyanide shells dismissing them as a bad mode of warfare as they poison the lives of the enemy. In 1862, New York school teacher, John W. Doushty wrote to the US Secretary of war suggesting methods of how to use poisonous gas on the enemy.
The next question that will be answered is how did natural resources limit the use of chemical weapons? The most significant development is the revolution in the life science and related technologies including a growing overlap between Chemistry and Biology. There is an increased understanding of the foundations of biological systems as a result, the mapping of the human and other genomes as well as the advances of the structural biology and the study of proteins. The intersection between Ch...
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...s and the harm they can have on mankind and how they are bad for the world. I talked about some of the history of chemical weapons and how that had impact on the wars back in history and the problems that they incurred back then. I also talked about what the government and organizations are doing to keep chemical weapons out of the picture of warfare and to kill the world and people who live on it.
To keep a chemical war from starting and using weapons of mass destruction from ever happening. This paper also talked about some of the medical breakthroughs with the form of chemical weapons on the people that are sick and to help cure them in ways that the chemical was made to do so. We all hope that the world will not come to us using chemical weapons on each other this is why we try so hard to keep them out of the hands of people that want to cause destruction.
THE USE OF CHEMICAL AGENTS IN WORLD WAR I History has proven the use of chemical weapons ranging back for decades. From the Greeks in ancient Europe using Greek fire to South American tribes using a form of tear gas made of grounded up hot chili peppers to scare away enemy tribes. As well as dipping the tips of spear heads with a poisonous toxin. Poisonous toxins used from live reptiles like frogs and venom from the snakes found from whichever region had enough potency venom to exterminate
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The Manhattan Project began in 1942 as a response to the growing force of Germany’s own nuclear weapons. With the start of this project, led by Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie R. Groves, the United States would begin to create its first arsenal of nuclear weapons. To help achieve this goal, renowned scientists and theoretical physicists were recruited, such as Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi. Main research facilities were constructed in Oak Ridge Tennessee; Hanford, Washington; and Los Alamos
people have searched high and low for weapons to turn the tides of war. With modern technology we have reached a point that at the push of a button we could destroy our entire planet. The question now is, are the weapons needed for protection, or should they be destroyed in an effort to save the world from potential destruction? There are no right answers, only the loss of power or the loss of humanity. Which should we choose? We must all learn the dangers of weapons of mass destruction to decide which
of casualties was mostly caused by new developments in warfare technology. One of the most well remembered weapons of World War I was mustard gas. Mustard gas caused the soldiers’ skin and internal organs to blister and could be fatal, but could take anywhere from a week to an entire month to claim the lives of its victims from the inside out. Mustard gas has gone down in history as one of the most dreaded elements of the war. This horrific example of chemical weaponry is just one of the numerous amounts
Biological Weapons and Biological Warfare Thesis: Biological Warfare is morally and inhumanely wrong, It is the wrongful killing of men, women, and children. It should be stopped no matter what the circumstances are. I. Introduction into the bad effects of biological warfare through some examples. a. Example of single affect of biological warfare b. Example of a country using Biological Warfare II. Definition of Biological Warfare a. Biological Warfare Agents i. Micro-Organisms ii