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The Effect Of Biochem And Nuclear Weapons Development

Warfare is the process of military struggle between two nations or groups of nations . Since the development of technology throughout the world, many countries misused that opportunity to make a mass destruction weapons such as biological and chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, and so on for their own benefit. The developments of this kind of weapons were started since World War I and it continuous until the present time. In the past, there were some countries compete to make weapons that are more powerful than the other countries had. The first developed mass destruction weapons were on World War I. In that war, Germany used Mustard Gas to push the French army back to France. The other development of mass destruction weapons on war is the nuclear bomb that happened on World War II. The United States military dropped that bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Biological warfare is a military operations using any organism (bacteria, virus or other disease-causing organism) or toxin found in nature, to kill, injure or incapacitate human beings, animals, or plants . Early biological warfare is founded in the Black Sea port of Kaffa (now Feodossia), Ukraine in 1346. The military use animals to spread the viruses to the enemy military soldier. The other use of biological warfare is when the war between Indian and France on 1754 and 1767. The British army used a blanket that was infected with smallpox-virus to infiltrate the American-Indian people. But it is still unclear about the viruses, is it Britain contaminated the blanket or it just the virus that carried by the European people. In 1943, the United States have a research on offensive biological warfare program at Fort Detrick, Maryland. By 1969, United States have developed the biological warfare and have given their agents with viruses that causing anthrax, botulism, tularemia, brucellosis, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, and Q fever . In the same year, President Nixon stopped the development unilaterally. 1972 the...