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
OR
Aerosol ---not very effective
OR
Mortar
shells/Arty shells
OR
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