Introduction Lead Technique: Imagine Imagine you are walking to work on a Monday. As you walk you see a light mist in front of you‚ thinking nothing of it‚ you walk into the fog. Within seconds of inhaling the mist you collapse to the ground shaking violently‚ unable to breathe. Within minutes you and countless people around you are dead. What just happened was a chemical weapon attack with the nerve gas VX‚ one of the many chemical weapons out there in military warehouses and labs. Biological warfare
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Chemical Weapons Chemical weapons use the toxic properties of chemical substances rather than their explosive properties to produce physical or physiological effects on an enemy. Although instances of what might be styled as chemical weapons date to antiquity‚ much of the lore of chemical weapons as viewed today has its origins in World War I. During that conflict "gas" (actually an aerosol or vapor) was used effectively on numerous occasions by both sides to alter the outcome of battles. A significant
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Luke Corrigan Per. 2 Chemical warfare What is Chemical Warfare: To understand chemical warfare you must first understand what a chemical agent is. A United Nations report from 1969 defines chemical warfare agents as " ... chemical substances‚ whether gaseous‚ liquid or solid‚ which might be employed because of their direct toxic effects on man‚ animals and plants ... ". This means basically that any chemical that is used to directly effect and harm a person‚ plant‚ or animal would be an act
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OUTLINE 1. Intro- Chemical and biological weapons first appeared in a large quantity in the First World War. Chemical weapons‚ such as sarin‚ nerve gas‚ and mustard gas‚ have to be made in a laboratory. Biological weapons‚ such as Typhus‚ Q fever‚ and Anthrax‚ can be viruses or bacteria. Chemical and Biological weapons have few advantages and so many disadvantages that the advantages aren’t worth the possible effects. 2. Paragraph 1-advantages that can be turned into disadvantages a. Point 1-killing
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to hover or levitate if they joined. Since its establishment in 1984‚ it has committed at least two terrorist attacks. The group was popular in the 1990’s and had many members (10‚000 in Japan and approximately 30‚000 in Russia) but following the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway‚ the numbers diminished due to the group being targeted by the police. They changed the name of the organisation from Aum Shinrikyo to Aleph. History The infamous Cult began in 1987 and was founded by Shoko Asahara
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carried out by members of a religious doomsday cult known as Aum Shinrikyo (Aum)‚ and consisted of vials of the nerve agent sarin thinly wrapped in newspaper. The five men who carried the packages‚ eleven in all‚ placed them on the train’s floors and in overhead compartments‚ punctured the vials with specially sharpened umbrella tips‚ and exited at the next stop. The sarin liquid leaked and quickly vaporized‚ making anyone who was near subject to darkened vision‚ ocular pain‚ nausea‚ miosis‚ hyperaemia
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was already in a very comfortable position in the six-year civil war to retain the monarchy‚ a fact fortified by even President Trump only two weeks before the alleged attack. Now the debate would be why he wanted to do something as daft as to use SARIN gas on civilians when he clearly had the Russians to pulverise any chosen target. Or was this just a WTD illusion? James Comey was sacked from an executive position of the FBI; in a ‘The Apprentice’ TV show like style‚ which he only finds out from
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Running Head: Aum Shinrikyo Aum Shinrikyo Adrian Chisholm Wilmington University Nicci Koban CRJ 472 06/14/2011 Abstract There are many cults‚ not all are terrorists. The Oxford dictionary defines cult as‚ “ritualistic religious system‚ devotion to a person or thing.” The FBI’s definition of terrorism is “the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government‚ the civilian population‚ or any segment thereof‚ in furtherance of political or
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AumShirinkyo BACKGROUND Aumshinkriyo was a religious group which was considered as a religion in JAPAN (1987-2000). Aum’s religious beliefs were a combination of Hinduism and Buddhism‚ with their yoga like praying rituals and superstitious concepts like karma. Their concept of hell was Christian-like and they considered their supreme leader Shoko Ashara as the most enlightened one who can look into the future. Aumshinkriyo was initially a yoga studio and a publishing house started by Ashara in
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large quantities of tabun at the end of the war. Even though Hitler and his army were losing the war‚ Schrader and his co-workers synthesized about 2‚000 new compounds up until the end of the war‚ including sarin in 1938‚ manufacturing never started properly and up to 1945 only 0.5 tons of sarin was produced and in 1944 soman made its introduction. After the war immediate research
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