Ricin Assassination Ricin is a lethal toxic agent that can be found in the seeds of castor bean plant. According to CDC at http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/ricin/facts.asp, ricin is created from castor bean waste after it had been processed and castor oil is made. The agent is illegal and is not available in the United States, but is available in the international countries. The agent itself is known to be expensive within the international market, but the castor bean plant can be found anywhere. The
mother at the age of two. Her Father worked at General Motors in Doraville Georgia. Shannon has been married three times and has six children. The most recent child was born on July 4, 2013, while Shannon was in custody, for the sending of the three ricin laced letters. Five of the children are from previous relationships and their names are Branden, Allen, Taylor, Ethan and Logan. The sixth child is from her currently separated husband, Nathan Richardson. Nathan has filed for divorce. The most recent
Ricin is a chemical substance that was used in killing targeted individuals during the Cold War. The chemical was first developed in the United States and United Kingdom, but it was widely used in other countries like Bulgaria. The substance can kill individuals exposed to it through ingestion, inhalation and injections. Among the victims of ricin assassination includes Georgi Markov who was one of the rebels of the former communist regime. Ricin was also used as a weapon that targeted government
As terrorists groups become better financed and more sophisticated, the opportunity for terrorism in the United States and Europe becomes much greater. Within the sphere of bio-terrorism, there are a variety of agents for terrorist groups to utilize, ranging from Category A, B, and C bioweapon agents. The whole board of biological weapon agents highlights the goal that terrorists have in common: to attack our core human biology and kindle the growing panic within each of us. Introduction Parallel
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
working under tighter security creates a rift between Walt and Jesse, and Gus uses the opportunity to bring Jesse to his side by having Mike train him in hopes of eventually replacing Walt. Walt figures out what Gus is up to and gives Jesse homemade ricin with which to poison Gus, but Jesse never goes through with it. Meanwhile, Walt buys the car wash where he used to work and uses it to launder his drug money. After ridding himself of the Cartel's influence in the area, Gus fires Walt and warns him
"We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system." -Ted Kaczynski The sun rises to a deep spring-blue sky on Sunday the Fifth of May 2017; 51,000 people are converging on downtown Spokane for the 39th running of the Bloomsday road race. Thirty miles to the south, near the town of Fairfield, a small cluster of people watch from a distance as two men in protective coveralls and respirators pour fifty gallons of a clear fluid into the payload compartment of a Bell 300C helicopter
on the rise. Hackers has the skills and technology to plan an attack. Furthermore, there are a significant amount of information on the internet to help one plan for an attack. “On the other hand, bioterrorism occurs when biological toxins such as ricin, anthrax, or small pox are intentionally introduced into the air, food, or water” (Maras, 2013, p.12). This sort of terrorism can cause a person health to decline and even result in their death. In addition, nuclear terrorism is the attack with a
Everyday around the world every person on the planet is affected by the discoveries of Louis Pasteur. Louis Pasteur was born in Dole, France on December, 27, 1822. Due to the work of Louis Pasteur, people no longer have to worry about consuming unsafe foods, or getting bacterial infections during surgery, or dying from rabies after being bitten by an animal. Louis Pasteur has been recognized as one of the world. Because Pasteur developed the process of pasteurization, molecular asymmetry, Germ
man picking up an umbrella. The man apologized for what he had done and kept on walking. Georgi Markov became sick that night and died a couple of days later. The autopsy that was conducted on the body uncovered a small pellet that had a coat of ricin on it, which is a biological poison (Mayer, p 4). Throughout the early 1900’s, Great Britain was developing a biological weapon program. It all started because Great Britain was afraid that Germany and Japan had a great advantage in biological
committed by the commander shiro Ishii and a couple of others under his command. The Nazis would deliberately infect prisoners with syphilis and gonorrhea via rape. The soviets tested several deadly poisons on prisoners in the gulag like mustard gas, ricin, digitoxin and several others. The soviets wanted and tried hard to find a tasteless and... ... middle of paper ... ...anged a lot over the past ten years much less or the past 70 years, but there is no explanation to why they just kept “testing”
The Dark Web A multitude of people have never heard of one of the most dangerous places in the world, and it is not on land. The dark web, also considered the deep web, is a hidden part of the internet which is undetected by search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. The dark web is not accessible without special browsers. The dark web is estimated to be 4,000–5,000 times larger than the web that is familiar to most people (Finklea 2015). Although the dark web is good for being anonymous, it is
Chapter 1-3 showed the beginnings of homeland security and the expansion and growth of Homeland Security. Chapter 4 shows the actions of homeland security, and the steps they take toward a problem to access it. The DHS above all needs to realized and understand how to address an attack quickly and efficiently, and have counter measure put into place beforehand. The DHS must be able to access the risks of any situation, and must decipher the potential hazard the situation could cause. When looking
The morning of September 11, 2001, Americans experienced vulnerability and realized a new fear, the threat of a bioterrorist attack. In the days that followed the terrorist attacks letters tainted with anthrax began appearing in the U.S. mail. Five Americans were killed and 17 were sickened in what became the worst biological attacks in U.S. history (“Amerithrax or Anthrax Investigation”). Bioterrorism is defined as a criminal act against unsuspecting civilians and a threat to national security
We've come to a point where television has become so loaded with “vampire-this” and “werewolf-that,” that each show has begun to look like the reruns of another. Luckily, this definitely isn't the case for creator Vince Gilligan's, Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad follows the life of Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston), an ordinary high school chemistry teacher. With a loving wife and teenage son at home, over time, Walter has formed an exceedingly mundane routine for his life. After soon discovering
1.3. Elongation cycle The elongation cycle is highly conserved across all kingdoms of life. Each cycle of elongation adds one amino acid to the C-terminus of the newly synthesized peptide (Yu et al., 2014). Figure 9 describes the steps involved in the elongation cycle. Figure 9. Bacterial elongation cycle. Elongation cycle involves sequential addition of amino acid to the growing peptide chain. Aminoacylated tRNA in complex with EF-Tu and GTP interacts with the A-site in the decoding center where