Biological and Chemical Weapons

Biological & Chemical Weapons
Chaos, fear, and death. Those three words are what most people’s first thoughts are when they see the destructive offspring of either Biological or Chemical Weapons. These Weapons of Mass Destruction (also known as WMD’s) are actually considered the deadliest weapons of all time to not only humans but also to other animals, and plants. Biological and Chemical Warfare has become a major threat not only to the safety to the people of America, but also on the frontlines across the world but, that in order to fix these that the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and Chemical Weapons Convention could do is to make mandatory background checks for anyone who buys any additives that are in any Bio/ Chemical weapons, mandatory safety exercises, and make bans heavier on the use of these weapons in war.
What is Biological Warfare? Biological Warfare is a way to cause chaos, fear, pain, and suffering to the enemy through the use of natural toxins. Biological Warfare has been around for a very long time ever since the first act of chemical warfare in 1000 BC, and even since America’s Revolutionary War. But, the first recorded events were in the times of Ancient Greece and Julius Caesar’s Roman Empire, for example, Mark Antony would hurl barrels of venomous snakes over onto enemy ships in Naval Battles, also Roman/Greek Officers would poison the rivers leading into the city they were invading, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries by catapulting corpses caused and still carrying smallpox, and in America’s Revolutionary War British officers would hand out smallpox infected blankets to the Native Americans.
What is a biological weapon? A biological weapon is the use of toxins to cause disease in humans (also an...

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...very painfully (obviously). Cyanide acts quickly, but only large amounts are deadly. Cyanide poisoning can be treated with inhaled amyl nitrate, intravenous sodium nitrite, and sodium thiosulfate. Then there is the most commonly known nerve agent, Sarin. Sarin is clear, colorless, tasteless, and lastly odorless. It's a highly unstable chemical and is for the most part an inhalational hazard. The effects of Sarin poisoning include having a runny nose, tightness in the chest, breathing difficulty, and nausea and vomiting, reflex bowel movement and urination, unintentional muscle movements, intense migraines, confusion, and tiredness. If untreated, victims stop breathing and die. Antidotes for Sarin when affected are atropine and pralidoxmine. Eyes and skin should be flushed thoroughly if exposed. And lastly, there is the most commonly known choking agent, chlorine.