The Soviet Union’s Biological Substance Preparation program also known as Biopreparat was created in 1973; the main idea was to establish an entity that would not leave any “footprints” of biological weapons activity in the Soviet Union. This was needed since the Soviet Union had signed the Biological Weapons Convention in 1972, which banned the mass production, and used of biological weapons. So to avoid drawing any attention to the link between the Bioperparat and the 15th Directorate, communication
discontinued use of chemical and biological warfare. Unfortunately, many countries would violate this document in order to gain an advantage over their adversaries. The Japanese, Soviet Union, and United States biological weapon programs are merely a few within the world, each committed to their own purpose. These are the countries that will have the history of their weapons programs told within this paper. The Japanese would begin their main biological weapons experimentations in 1935 after the
The Race for Arms The idea of a weapon that could produce global annihilation was born during the Second World War; with this information in tow, the United States and the Soviet Union entered into the nuclear arms race, developing the first atomic bombs. In order to perfect these weapons of mass destruction, both countries needed to test their products to look for flaws in the general blue prints of the weapons. Seeing the success with the atomic bomb, the United States started developing a more
Caudle of the “The Biological Warfare Threat, “pathogens or their toxins could be used to destroy crops, animals, humans, and materials.” That should not come as a surprise since there have been multiple times that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has responded to incidents involving a threat to use biological weapons in the United States. Biological and toxin weapons are easy and inexpensive to make, making it the most accessible and deathliest weapon to exist. Biological agents are any bacterium
to protect their country and their rights. Weapons of mass destruction are at the epicenter of this constant threat against peace and life. The presence of weapons of mass destruction is a serious threat to the world and daily life, requires much concern, and needs to be addressed because of the imminent threat of massive destruction. Weapons of mass destruction are divided into biological, chemical, and nuclear devices (Porteus 1). The uses of weapons of mass destruction can range from the silent
Bacillus Anthracis and Biological Warfare Bacillus anthracis is a rod-shaped, nonmotile, aerobic, gram-positive bacterium that can be transmitted from herbivoric animals to humans (Figure 1). Before an animal’s death, its orifices exude blood containing huge quantities of the bacterium. Anthrax forms extremely resilient spores upon exposure to atmospheric conditions. Because of this spore-producing ability, even after the animal host dies the germs can sporulate again, persisting in the soil
During the Cold War, an arms race involving the United States and the Soviet Union's drive for conventional and nuclear forces supremacy. This paper will focus on the nuclear arms development primarily focusing on the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) of the Soviet Union, and the measures taken by the United States to mitigate the capabilities of Soviet orbital bombardment by bolstering missile-warning technologies. The primary focus will be on improvements to ground based radar sensors
United States, following Cold War calculus, allied with unscrupulous leaders opposed to communism, like the Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua, the Reza Shahs in Iran, the dictator Franco in Spain, and the elite in El Salvador. Reagan’s belief that the Soviet Union was the Evil Empire committed him to support the brutal military regime in El Salvador, which he justified as protecting national security. Since September 11, the new American enemy is terrorism. To eliminate terrorist organizations, Bush
a relatively peaceful for the Korean people until the Japanese continued to try to conquer the peninsula. Korea’s early war history and constant isolation from the outside world. During their history the peninsula was united it was not until the Soviet Union and the United States one for the south and the other for the north that the country began to separated by the 38th parallel. Economic Growth North Korea is located in northern Korean Peninsula, country that bordered by South Korea, China,
The Space Race was a competition between the Soviet Union and the United States for supremacy in space. From 1955 until 1975, both sides battled it out to be the leader in the competition. Fueled by the Cold War and other causes of the beginning of the race, the Soviet Union and the United States fought for authority in a very public manner through the media. There were many achievements at this time and it led the way for many great things to come afterwards. The origins of the Space Race can be