WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

Chemical weapons

Aum Shinri Kyo –Jap group

Placed containers Sarin gas on 5 trains Tokyo underground netwotk,

12 dead,5500 injured

Shoko Asahara-leader –confessed 1997

1915 -Chlorine Germans Worldwar I ‘Y-press’ battle –5000 dead

1915 –Allies WW1-Belgium

1916- mustard gas-blister

WW2-no chemicals used –fear retaliatiomn

Less gas masks

Horses

5lakhs died in war

1983 Iraq-mustard gas- on Iran

85 - 1987Iraq on Kurds

WW1 Chlorine + Phosgene (Choking,pulmonary oedema,blistering& skin&lungs)

Mustard, HCN

After WW1 Nerve gases Tabun, Sarin,Soman =OP=N-M blockade-coma death

VX series =Respy failure

Other Chemical (non Gaseous)weapons

Liquids (in droplets)-Prussic acid,Arsenic, Strychinine

Aerosol ---not very effective

Mortar shells/Arty shells

Crash truck load into bldg

Biological

1400 –Anthrax—by Tartars in Ukraine

1760 –British gave blankets infected by Small Pox to Indians (in UK Military Hospitals)

WW1 Germans—Cholera –Italy

Plague,Anthrax

1937 - Japanese dropped Plague infested fleas grains over Chinese cities and on Chinese Pavs

1938 Iraq –UNSCOM discovered Germ stockpile installations in Saddam Hussein

1939 Libya& Midle East—hidden installations undergroind which can be converted into harmless Pharmaceutical Company in 24 hrs

1970 – RICIN =biological toxin agent = used for assassination

Russians -Anthrax accident- epidemic

10 ounces =Anthrax spores-can cause 6lakh deaths

Plague (Yersemia Pestis)

Ebola viruses (apes)

Lassa fever

Legionnaires disease

Crentzfeld Jakols (mad Car disease)

Salmonella ,Botulinium ,Staph Entero toxin B

Easy to produce

Difficult to detect

Cheap

Economic damage (crops) +casualties

Panic generating

In Oregen –750 people wee fed contaminated salads with S.Typhi ,Ma Sheila Anand arrested

Modys –water reservoir contamination

Immunization /gas masks /protective clothing /decontamination process ?treatment

Chemical weapons depend upon weather (eg.rain)

Nuclear – do not

Nuclear weapons–The Atom bomb

1. acquire 2.5 kgs Plitonium/Uranium

2. large cube Semtex-centre Plutonium oxide crystals –core make

3. weighs 1000kgs (1 ton)

4. requires truck or aircraft

Nuclear Black Market makes

Easy

Making core is easy

10 kilo ton device(Plutonium Basic)

= 1 lakh casualties in major city

Thermo nuclear device =20 lakhs

KGB had prepared luggage nukes =suitcases of nuclearbombs to sabotage enemy centres in war..Legal purchases from abroad via Russian Ministry of Atomic energy! OR small time smugglinginto country. (terr substitute Plutonium for Cesium –137)

1976 – Bombs thrown on atomic reactor France

Lemoniz atomic station Spain ETA

1982 African National Congress sabotaged 2 South African nuclear plants in Africa

1995 Terr blew transmission cables of nuclear plant Philipines

sabotage of eactor-no direct casualties but ecological damage

Chechnya- Terr threatened to turn Soviet Union into a desert by radio active waste & sent a sample of it to Police in a dustbin

Cyber Terrorism, The Extreme right

1. Data theft

2. damage software &crashsystems (viruses)

detonate at a given time and destroy data =hostile programs(logic bombs by rewriting called Trap doors, Trojan horses ,Worms ,Spy chips
HERF (High Energy Radio Freq ) guns –suitcase sized device –disable electronic components

Financial Institutions –credit cards tampering

- Money filtering

Electronic transformers

Air traffic control –collisions ,crashes

Surveillance Aircrafts ,satellites ,GPS

Production (poisoning) Food,drugs

Main groups of Phreakers & Hackers

US –legion og doom

Germen _chaos Computer Club

WMD –harms friends & enemies