ABSTRACT
CONTENTS History of Biological Weapons ......................................................................................... 90 Munitions ........................................................................................................................ 93 Small-Scale Deployment .................................................................................................. 96 Conclusions ..................................................................................................................... 96 Appendix A Calculation of the Mass of Infectious Organisms Required to Produce a Lethal Dose-50 (LD50) in a Volume, V ........................................................ 97 References ........................................................................................................................ 98 Bibliography .................................................................................................................... 98
e specter of biological weapons has haunted mankind for nearly a 1000 years. Until recently, biological weapons have been viewed as strategic weapons. As a strategic military tool, biological weapons are very limited. ey are highly dependent upon the weather, temperature, wind direction, wind speed, and other factors that cannot be controlled. However, with the proliferation of information that an open society off ers, the know-how to develop and use biological weapons is becoming available to individuals. us, biological weapons must now be viewed as a much broader threat. Biological weapons have a psychological eff ect upon people as they can create terror among the masses. is makes biological weapons an ideal tool for terrorism.
