UNIT 731 For forty years after World War 2‚ the Japanese managed to keep one of the most grotesque and inhumane war crimes a secret. This was their institution‚ unit 731. Here‚ groups of medical scientists and doctors conducted unbearable human experiments on captured POW’s or innocent civilians. These included weapons testing of biological warfare. Thesis: The aftermath of unit 731 still has a psychological and physiological affect today. Thesis: The events that occurred in unit 731 were unjustified
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“Set up as a top-secret biological and chemical weapons facility during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War Two‚ Unit 731 has been referred to as the Asian Auschwitz. Through the practice of lethal human experimentation‚ the unit is thought to have been responsible for the death of up to 200‚000 civilians and military personnel – the vast majority Chinese and Korean nationals‚ but also South East Asians‚ Pacific Islanders and Allied POWs. In the sprawling six kilometer-square complex in the
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World War II carried on for six‚ long years. For most of the soldiers‚ that was it. They got to go home and see their family and friends. But some soldiers never got to see their loved ones‚ because they were held in captivity. During and after World War II‚ Allied soldiers were captured‚ brutally tortured‚ pressed for information‚ and used as a source of amusement for Axis powers. They were known as prisoners of war or POWs. Prisoners of war‚ or POWs‚ were soldiers that had been captured and held
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some compelling evidence for the utilization of these human experiments‚ the reasons this research should be discarded has more merit. Japanese WWII Human Experimentation clinics‚ such as Unit 731‚ should not be used nor help influence scientific research in the modern day. Human experiments that took place at Unit 731 were as follows; vivisection‚ germ warfare attacks‚ frostbite testing and transmission of syphilis. The transmission of syphilis was orchestrated by the doctors forcing sexual acts between
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to 1945‚ the Japanese empire was completely unjustified in the prosecution of the war. Whether or not the war was justified or unjustified can judged by the the Principles of Just War‚ the Geneva Convention‚ as well as the Hague convention. Unit 731 was a unit of the Japanese army used for lethal human experiments on prisoners of war during the years 1939-1945. The majority of the prisoners were Chinese‚ Korean‚ and Mongolian. Some of these experiments conducted included vivisection without the use
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BIOWEAPONS IN AMERICA AND THE ETHICS INVOLVED TYLER TURNER BIOETHICS 2014 Bioweapons are defined as the deliberate use of disease-causing biological agents‚ such as protozoa‚ fungi‚ bacteria‚ or viruses‚ to kill or incapacitate humans‚ other animals‚ or plants (Johnson‚ 2014). These types of weapons are living organisms or replicating entities (such as viruses) that reproduce or replicate within their host victims (Ravitsky‚ 2009). Bioterrorism is the act of using bioweapons to cause illness
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times‚ biological warfare has become more sophisticated. In WW1‚ the Germans were the first to develop anthrax‚ cholera‚ glanders and wheat fungus all used as agents. In WW2 the Japanese had their own secret facility for research‚ which was called‚ (Unit 731) that carried out human experiments on prisoners to see what effects different organisms or agents had. In Vietnam‚ the Vietcong used punji sticks dipped in feces‚ which caused severe infections after an enemy solider has been stabbed. There are
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Commentaries Why Should We Be Concerned About Biological Warfare? There is a widespread tendency to think about defense against biological warfare as unnecessary‚ as someone else’s responsibility‚ or as simply too difficult. Unfortunately‚ however‚ the dangers posed by biological weapons did not disappear when the United States began to unilaterally dismantle its own offensive program in 1969. The dangers did not vanish with the signing of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention of 1972‚ and
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Biological weapons are living organisms‚ whatever their nature‚ or the materials that are created because of their use. Biological weapons can cause disease or death in living organisms‚ and are depended upon for their further ability to multiply inside the organism that it attacks. Chemical weapons are defined as chemical substances of gas‚ liquid‚ or solid which are used because of a directly toxic effect upon humans‚ animals‚ or plants. Even though the two weapons are closely related‚ chemical
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Chemical and Biological Weapons are Your FriendsAs we go on our daily lives‚ terrorists are buying and developing dangerous and hazardous biological and chemical weapons to obliterate us. They do not care who they harm; their mission is to cause terror‚ to spread chaos‚ to engulf the world in anarchy. They want to know that they are making people terminally ill and sick. They will be enjoying a job well done while your skin is covered with excruciating painful blisters‚ or while you tell your loved
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