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Biological warfare has been practiced repeatedly throughout history.
The earliest documented incident of the intention to use biological weapons is recorded in Hittite texts of 1500-1200 BC in which victims of plague were driven into enemy lands.
According to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the epic poems about the legendary Trojan War, spears and arrows were tipped with poison. During the First Sacred War in Greece, in about 590 BC, Athens and the Amphictionic League poison the water supply of the besieged town of Kirrha (near Delphi) with the toxic plant hellebore. The Roman commander Manius Aquillus poisoned the wells of besieged enemy cities in about 130 BC.
During the 4th century BC Scythian archers tipped their arrows with tips with snake venom, human blood, and animal feces to cause wounds to become infected.
During the Middle Ages victims of the Bubonic Plague were used for biological attacks, often by flinging their corpses and excrement over castle walls using catapults. In 1346 the bodies of Mongol warriors of the Golden Horde who had died of plague were thrown over the walls of the besieged Crimean city of Kaffa (Theodosia). It has been speculated that this operation may have been responsible for the advent of the Black Death in Europe.
At the siege of Thun l'Eveque in 1340 during the Hundred Years' War the attackers catapulted decomposing animals into the besieged area
In September 1710, during Queen Anne's War (part of the French and Indian Wars) Iroquois Indian tribes used biological warfare against the British. Native Americans were concerned that the British were becoming too strong compared to the French, and poisoned water sources with freshly killed animal hides, which would have presumably infected the water with E.coli and other bacteria.
Late in the French and Indian Wars, there is belief that smallpox was introduced to Indians based on the correspondence of the British commander Lord Jeffery Amherst and Colonel Henry Bouquet which talked about giving the Indians smallpox infected blankets. However nothing can be proved, as smallpox was already present in the area.
During the First World War Germany used anthrax and *glanders* against livestock.
During World War Two, the notorious Unit 731 of the Japanese Army is believed to have caused the deaths of 400, 000 Chinese through the use of biological warfare.
*Glanders*, is an infectious disease that occurs primarily in horses, mules, and donkeys. The virus Burkholderia malleiwhich cause glanders is able to infect humans.
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What term is used for military use of harmful biological agents?
Biological Warfare
Is biological warfare a legitimate good use of science?
yesANS 2 - NO. biological warfare is a perversion of science and many scientists agree on that.
Is biological warfare a legitimate use of science?
Opinions about biological warfare being a legitimate use of science will differ. It is my opinion that using science to hurt and destroy human beings, animals, the environment or anything at all is NEVER a legitimate use of science.
Did America use poisonous gas in the Vietnam war?
No. During that war it was US doctrine to utilize chemical warfare only for retaliation; the US would not use it first. Biological warfare was not US doctrine. Not to be used. The US reserved the right to "first strike" with nuclear weapons.
What has the author Julian Perry Robinson written?
Julian Perry Robinson has written: 'Public Health Response to Biological and Chemical Weapons' 'The effects of weapons on ecosystems' -- subject(s): Biological warfare, Chemical warfare, Environmental aspects, Environmental aspects of Biological warfare, Environmental aspects of Chemical warfare, Environmental aspects of Military weapons, Environmental aspects of Nuclear weapons, Environmental aspects of War, Military weapons, Nuclear weapons, War 'The United States binary nerve-gas programme' -- subject(s): Asphyxiating and poisonous Gases, Chemical weapons, Military policy, War use 'Chemical and biological warfare developments, 1985' -- subject(s): Biological warfare, Chemical warfare
When were soldiers first gassed?
The first extensive use of gas in warfare was during World War I, when both sides made extensive use of gas, killing or injuring an estimated 1.3 million soldiers and civilians. Prior to World War I and back into antiquity, there were much smaller attempts to use chemical and biological agents as weapons of war. Consider using a catapult to fling pots of dung over the walls of a castle. The resulting stink could be considered an early form of gas warfare, and the potential infection could be considered biological warfare.
What is biochemical warfare?
Biochemical Warfare is war using weapons of a biological or chemical nature. such as biotoxins. Anthrax bombs are a good example of bichemical weapons. To use weapons of mass distruction.
Did french and the british use any biological warfare in their war?
yes they spread small pox among the native people
Can plague be a biological weapon?
Over the history of warfare, the plague is probably the most commonly used form of biological warfare. There are two reasons most people wouldn't use it now - it's easy to treat with antibiotics, and every army vaccinates its soldiers against it.
What was the first country to use tanks in warfare?
Germany
What was good about the battle of the Somme?
The first use of tanks in warfare
Why does the world community strongly condemn biological warfare as such weapons today?
When biological weapons have been used the outcome has been massive death and biological destruction. It affects all things in the area used. When Hessian used biological weapons against his people whole populations died. Since it is biological it stays in the environment and can mutate so it has been agreed not to use them.
