Search results for "Biological warfare" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • is used to deliver nuclear, chemical, biological or conventional warheads ... and reflected the American nuclear warfare theory and military doctrines ...
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  • Given its toxicity, hydrogen cyanide is listed as a chemical warfare ... Hydrogen cyanide is commonly listed amongst chemical warfare agents ...
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  • encouraging the Shuar to abandon warfare and the production of shrunken ... shrunken heads (tzantza) as trophies of warfare, Shuar insisted that they ...
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  • moderately threatening as an agent in warfare or terrorism (Lerner and ... and utility as an agent of chemical/biological warfare, it is extremely difficult ...
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  • == Biological and environmental roles == state of matter, the roles of gases in biological and environmental roles ...
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  • is limited to poisons produced via some biological function in nature, such ... to create nerve agents designed for biological warfare and biological terrorism ...
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  • for centuries, but outright total warfare was first demonstrated in ... to the earth and humankind through nuclear warfare in the mid-twentieth century ...
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  • weapons could be co-opted into their biological warfare program, much as they ... the establishment of an additional biological warfare development unit called ...
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  • that "physicians and medical and biological researchers took a central ... had participated in chemical and biological warfare experiments on concentration ...
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  • motivations, rather than purely biological factors. While polygyny ... sexual partners is a basic human biological instinct or need. Although ...
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  • Geneva Protocol on the use of gas and biological weapons of 1925. They were ... provisions prohibiting certain methods of warfare and addressing issues of ...
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  • (such as anthrax) is considered biological warfare rather than chemical ... Their use is classified as biological warfare. ====Designations==== ...
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  • found and recovered from the Iraqi biological warfare program. ... sent Iraq 14 agents "with biological warfare significance," ...
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  • by overexposure to pesticides and chemical warfare agents such as sarin and ... Some plants also are the focus of extensive biological study as model ...
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  • city walls. From ancient times siege warfare dominated the conduct of ... over city walls in an early example of biological warfare. ...
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  • study of humankind's cultural and biological evolution through all time ... for some time, but the idea of the biological evolution of species in ...
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  • research include the Nazi human experiments; the biological and chemical warfare research of Unit 731, and the United States Public Health Services Tuskegee ...
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  • of thought on this issue. One holds that warfare ... goes back at least to ... twentieth century. This latecomer view of warfare, espoused by Jared Diamond ...
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  • between the races exist, be they biological, social, psychological ... to frame racism within the terms of biological difference among human ...
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  • Rape, in the course of warfare, also dates back to antiquity, ancient ... C. T. Palmer, A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion ...
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