Wednesday 26th November 2003

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CONFIDENTIAL
Wednesday 26th November 2003
Weapons of Mass-Destruction
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Radiological Weapons
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Radiological Weapons

• The only main radiological weapon is the Dirty
  Bomb
• It is basically a normal bomb, with radioactive
  material included with the explosive
• It is important to remember that the explosion
  isnt nuclear, although the effects on people and
  property are very similar
• The main effects are radiation sickness, which
  usually leads to death
• These bombs are thought to be the first choice of
  many terrorists, as they are relatively easy to
  acquire components and construct, compared to
  nuclear bombs etc

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The Atomic Bomb

• In 1942 the atomic bomb was developed in the USA
  to combat the threat of Hitler.
• After the Germans surrendered, research continued
  in secret.
• It cost nearly 2billion and more than 120,000
  people were involved.
• It was named the Manhattan Project.
• On the 16th July 1945 the worlds first atomic
  bomb test was carried out in New Mexico.

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• Japan The Atomic Bomb

• The first Atomic Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima,
  Japan on the 6th August 1945.
• It was dropped from the Enola Gay and was
  nicknamed Little Boy.
• The strong winds from the blast destroyed all
  buildings within a 1.5 mile radius and the huge
  amount of heat emitted burnt everything in its
  path including the people of Hiroshima.
• It is estimated that between 140,000 and 200,000
  people have died as a result of the bomb.
• Three days later the second bomb was dropped on
  Nagasaki, Japan.
• Its nickname was Fat Man.
• Even though the bomb was larger and more powerful
  than Little Boy it caused less damage due to
  the geography of the city.
• Approximately 70,000 died as a result of the bomb.

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Little Boy
Fat Man
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The Effects Of Nuclear Weapons

• Nuclear weapons produce devastating and long-term
  effects on human and animal life, as well as the
  environments in which they live. These are the
  hardest of all types of weapons to make because
  the critical nuclear elements plutonium and/or
  highly enriched uranium are hard to come by,
  and are very expensive.

Delivery Systems

• These weapons are most likely to be delivered in
  the form of ballistic missiles or bombs dropped
  by fly-over bombers. Terrorists could also cause
  accidents involving nuclear power plants, nuclear
  medicine machines in hospitals and vehicles used
  in the transportation of nuclear waste.
• The size of an actual nuclear weapon can be quite
  small, and could easily fit into a large car or
  truck. That has sparked a fear among many experts
  that a nuclear warhead could simply be driven
  into a large city by terrorists and detonated by
  either a suicide bomber or by remote control.

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Who Has Them?

• The United States has a stockpile of 10,600
  nuclear weapons and 103 power plants. Russia has
  a similar supply. The United Nation's
  International Atomic Energy Agency oversees 900
  of the world's nuclear facilities. Pakistan and
  India have both exploded nuclear devices in test
  blasts. Israel and North Korea are two countries
  believed to possess nuclear weapons.
• Nuclear weapons continue to be a proliferation
  concern, particularly when North Korea recently
  announced it was continuing its nuclear arms
  program, and withdrew from the International
  Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.
• One worry of the United States is not so much
  that North Korea itself will use what weapons it
  has, but that it will have no qualms about
  selling them to the highest bidder, whether that
  bidder be a nation such as Iraq, which sponsors
  terrorism, or individual terrorist groups such as
  Al-Qaeda.

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One worst-case scenario simulation estimated a
one-megaton explosion in Detroit (equivalent to a
million tons of TNT) could kill 250,000 people,
injure half a million more, and flatten all
buildings within a 1.7 mile radius.
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First comes the explosion
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then comes the aftermath
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• USA
• Russia
• UK
• France
• China
• Pakistan
• India

Countries with nuclear weapons are
Countries suspected of having nuclear weapons

• Iraq
• Libya
• Iran
• North Korea
• Israel

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Biological Weapons
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Biological Weapons
Some of the most dangerous types of biological
weapons are anthrax and smallpox and fall into
category A Category B are less dangerous and
cause minor fatality e.g. Q fever or enterotoxin
B Category C could in the future be very
dangerous such as nipah virus or yellow fever
Symptoms vary between each category but each has
flu symptoms. They are treated using antibiotics
and vaccines.
Anthrax
There are three types of anthrax skin, lungs and
digestive. It was used as a weapon in 2001 across
America with 22 reported cases of anthrax
infection Anthrax is a category A weapon because
it poses the greatest possible threat for a bad
effect on public health, may spread across a
large area or needs public awareness and planning
to protect the publics health
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Chemical Weapons
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Chemical Weapons

• Chemical weapons are mainly gas based weapons and
  the use of them were banned in 1925.
• The first chemical weapon to be used was Mustard
  Gas in WWI. It caused massive bleeding and took
  a person about 5 weeks to die of poisoning. It is
  estimated to have affected 1 million soldiers and
  killed 40,000.
• The most dangerous chemical weapon known is VX
  and attacks the nervous system.
• VX was created in the UK who then traded it the
  USA for their nuclear weapons programme
• The main effects of VX are spasms, comas and
  eventually death
• Only America, Russia and France are known to have
  VX, and it is unlikely ever to be used as a
  counter attack of nuclear weapons would be likely

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Since 1940 the USA has spent 239182430 every day
on defence of their country That works out at
approximately 9million an hour Or 166thousand a
minute they have 10,600 nuclear weapons at
their disposal
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and were meant to trust them?
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