chemical and biological weapons were at one time was nothing more than science fiction. The world has never been so close to ending than in the years which are labeled the Cold War. From the Truman Doctrine to the Cuban missile crisis to the LGM-30 Minuteman missile silos that still dot the American plains, many Americans did not know if they would wake up the next day to a nuclear winter. The geopolitical tensions between America and the Soviet Union put the world on edge and made