History of Bio/Chem Warfare

History of Biological and Chemical Warfare “The use of biological weapons and efforts to make them more useful as a means of waging war have been recorded numerous times in history” (NBC-MED). [As early as the sixth century BC biological warfare has been reported, when the Assyrians poisoned the wells of their enemies with rye ergot. When plague broke out in the Tartar army camp in 1346 during its siege of Kaffa (present day Feodosia in …

…History shows that humanity knows the price and threat of the existence of these weapons. Yet while many times the common good has tried to outlaw them, there will always be people, governments and countries that continue to put the world at risk with these weapons in order to make themselves seem stronger. Until something is done to stop them, biological and chemical weapons will continue to be the “poor man’s atomic bomb” (Watts).