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chemical and biological warfare Jacob Barber Miss cross Science core 4 __Chemical and Biological Warfare__ Chemical and biological warfare is the uses of toxic in chemical and biological agents to disable or destroy an enemy in warfare. It also includes defensive measure attacks. Chemical warfare encompasses the use of smokes for concealment and identification also the use of flame weapons such as flamethrowers and napalm bombs. Chemical and Biological warfare is used all over the world. The main thing about attacking enemies with chemical and biological weapons is to make a cloud of particles that are toxic and kill the enemy. The cause of cloud attacks is that the CB agents can be affective in large areas. If the toxic chemicals are used in buildings, they will penetrate and locate an enemy that has not been located accurately. When one person is in the same area as the toxic particles, and if that person does not have gear to protect them they will die from the toxic. Chemical compounds and biological materials cause only temporary incapacitation. The lethal chemical agents use the anticholinesterase compounds known as the nerve gases. These toxic compounds kill an enemy rapidly by inhibiting the action of the enzyme cholinesterase. The dosage of toxic chemicals to kill a living human being is very small. A number of diseases can be used for biological Warfare. Organisms of any type can be suitable for biological warfare. Chemical agents sometimes have a delay period before their effects appear. Biological agents always have an incubation period. Lethality is not as clear-cut a designation with biological agents as it is with chemical ones. Thus the staging of a lethal biological attack depends on more than simply supplying a specific dose of a disease agent. Plaque, which has a relatively high fatality rate, is one of the diseases that have been considered for use in biological attack. These mortality figures are for those who contract the disease in its naturally occurring form. Among the incapacitating disease that could be employed in biological warfare.

My research is about chemical and biological warfare and the importance of its use in war. It also tells how toxic chemicals are used and how they kill an enemy.

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