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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ALL You Have Viewed Too Many Free Essays, Term Papers, and Book Reports. Biological Weapons In History Biological Weapons In History If used in numbers, atomic bombs not only can nullify any nation's military effort, but can demolish its social and economic structure and prevent their re-establishment for long periods of time. With such weapons, especially if employed in conjunction with other weapons of mass destruction such as pathogenic bacteria, it is quite possible to depopulate vast areas of the earth's surface, leaving only vestigial remnants of man's material works. -Report of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Operation Crossroads, June 30, 1947 Biological weapons have a long history in warfare. The first accounts of biological warfare date to the 6th century B.C. when the Assyrians poisoned the wells of their enemies with rye ergot (a disease of rye and other cereals caused by ergot fungus, similar in effect to LSD) and again when Solon of Athens poisoned an aqueduct with hellebore, (an herb purgative) during the siege of Kirrha. During a naval battle in 184 B.C. against King Eumenes of Pergamon, Hannibal’s forces hurled clay pots filled with venomous snakes onto the enemy’s decks. Hannibal defeated the Pergamene, as they were forced to fight man and snake. Can biological weapons used throughout history be classified as weapons of mass destruction such weapons, smallpox, biological, been, variolation, disease, mass, water, warfare, indians, enemy, during, bc, attacks, against, weapon, today, poisoned, mild, made, june, infection, effects, diseases, destruction, century, case, 6th, variolated, two, trent, spread, small, pitt, out, nuclear, materials, man, long, know, individuals, indian, history, fort, enemy’s, effect, direct, deadly, chemical, army Word Count: 1542 Acceptance_Essays American_History Anatomy_&_Physiology Animal_Science_&_Zoology Anthropology Architecture Art Astronomy Aviation Biographies Book_Reports Business Computers Creative_Writing Current_Events Economics Education Engineering English Environmental_Science Ethics European_History Film_&_TV Foreign_Languages Geography Government_&_Politics Health_&_Beauty History_Other Human_Sexuality Legal_Issues Marketing Mathematics Medicine Miscellaneous Music Mythology Philosophy Physics Poetry Political_Science Psychology Religion Science Shakespeare Social_Issues Sociology Speech Sports_&_Recreation Supernatural Technology Theater Theses_&_Dissertations

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