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The Prominence of Weapons of Mass Destruction A 10 page paper which examines why there has been an increased emphasis on weapons of mass destruction terrorism as prominent feature on the world political agenda since the 1990s. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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nuclear arms were considered to be weapons of mass destruction (WMD). However, the Gulf War introduced to America and the rest of the world the impact of modern technology
on contemporary warfare through the deployment of chemical and biological weapons. Like many of its democratic counterparts, the focus of US foreign policy has shifted from the prevention of
WMD proliferation during the Cold War to nonproliferation or at least limiting its consequences (Falkenrath, 2000). Since the early 1990s, the number of terrorist attacks has increased dramatically and
these acts of violence can satisfy a variety of diverse objectives (Vegar, 1998). The rise of WMD as an instrument of terrorism is attributed to three distinctive groups dubbed
as "the new breed" - the religious sects or cults; racist and anti-government groups such as the neo-Nazis of Europe and America and the radical movements such as those led
by Waco, Texas extremist David Koresh; and fundamentalist organizations such as the Algerian GIA (Vegar, 1998, p. 50). Actually, biological weapons have been used by nations for centuries and their
terrorist implications were so feared by the Romans, they prohibited the use of "poison weapons" in combat (Vegar, 1998, p. 50). Biological weapons have become increasingly popular within terrorist
organizations since the 1990s because they can reproduce microorganisms in humans, plants and animals in the form of bacteria or viruses that can be rapidly circulated in large populations (Vegar,
1998). These biological agents, such as hemorrhagic fever, ebola virus, anthrax, salmonella, among others, have debilitating and long lasting effects (Vegar, 1998, p. 50). Chemical weapons have also
made their presence known on the international landscape and are defined as "any chemical agent with enough toxicity to incapacitate or kill" such as cyanide or attack the lungs (as
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