Weapons of Mass Destruction

Article by Prof. Dr. D Rao & Dr. S Rao

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) while Nuclear weapons 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 it 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 of doom
German – chaos Computer Club
WMD – harms friends & enemies