The Vietnam War: Biological Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Biological weapons are synonymous to germ weapons. Biological and germ weapons are any contagion that fits into the category of illness - afflicting agents. For example: fungi, viruses, rickettsiae, toxins, bacteria, or anything of the like whose purpose is to cause any harm to plants, animals, or humans. The biological warfare technique is a rather old one because of its horrifying success.

Biological weapons are alike chemical weapons, radiological weapons, and nuclear weapons. Each of the four weapons that I mentioned are classified as weapons of mass destruction. However, even though biological weapons are labeled as weapons of mass destruction, the term is somewhat misleading. Although these types of weapons can kill any number of living things, they are unfit if the purpose is to demolish buildings, equipment, etc. Despite what I have stated about how biological weapons are weapons of mass destruction and how that’s misleading, the title is not unearned. While lethal biological weapons have the ability of causing casualties in mass numbers, they lack in causing destruction to any type of object that is not living - buildings, equipment, etc.

Because of the way that they were built, biological weapons don't only have the
Agent Orange’s effects include chloroquine, liver cancer, neurological defects, reproductive abnormalities, soft tissue sarcoma, prostate cancer, spina bifida, Lymphoma Non-Hodgkin, multiple myeloma, type 2 diabetes, Porphyria Cutanea Tarda, Hodgkin’s Disease, respiratory cancer, rashes, tumors, psychological symptoms, and peripheral neuropathy. About 3 million or so Vietnamese have come in contact with and have been affected by Agent Orange with 150,000 of those victims being children with birth