Monday, September 7, 2009

Biological War - More Dangerous Than Nuclear Weapons

After the nuclear warfare, the most powerful warfare is the biological warfare. This type of war fare is used far before the invention of nuclear bombs. Though there was not much technology to invent new type of virus in those times, they still were successful to harm the enemy by using whatever was existing. The major form of biological warfare used to be poisoning the water sources where the enemies have possibilities to use them; and then using microorganisms, toxins or animals in a weapon system and by using biologically inoculated fabrics. It was aid that the enemies who were imprisoned during a war were used to conduct experiments by the prevailing scientists at that time. Imagine throwing 1000 persons in a small dump where there will be hardly any place to stand and then throwing terrific toxins or virus on them.

In the biological warfare they use pathogens like bacterium or virus or any kind of toxins as weapons. The main thing that makes the biological warfare more powerful than nuclear war is that it won’t kill a person at once. It starts eating the inner or the outer matter slowly making the death more devastating.

We had probably heard a disease called Anthrax in recent times. Well even that falls in this category.

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