1. WMDs Lesson Aim To learn about the varieties of Modern Armaments

2. What Variety of Modern Armaments Exist? Smart Missiles Chemical weapons Biological Weapons Nuclear Weapons

3. What Variety of Modern Armaments Exist? Smart Missiles Chemical weapons Biological Weapons Nuclear Weapons

4. Smart Missiles A Smart Missile is a guided weapons intended to precisely hit a specific target, and to minimize damage to things other than the target. The Smart Missile, after its launch, can be guided remotely towards its target

5. What are the benefits of using Smart Missiles???

6. Smart Missiles: Benefits The accuracy of a Smart Missile can help to minimize civilian casualties and hit the military targets

7. Smart Missiles: Benefits Smart Missiles allow a smaller numbers of planes to make successful attacks on stationary targets such as buildings, military stations, or bridges.

8. The pilot can launch the missile from a safe distance

9. It can be a lot faster than organising soldiers into a war zone

10. Smart Missiles: Benefits Simply possessing these weapons may make your enemy less likely to strike

11. What are the dangers of using Smart Missiles?

12. Smart Missiles: The Dangers Nothing is ever 100%. Smart Missiles have been known to miss targets and kill innocent civilians. Humans are behind the remotes.

13. Smart Missiles: The Dangers How do you store such weapons? What happens if you have a malfunction?

14. Smart Missiles: The Dangers These weapons are very expensive and are a huge drain on a nations resources. Estimates indicate the each Smart Missile costs $300,000 (about £200,000)

15. Smart Missiles: The Dangers By turning war into a video game it makes it feel unreal to one side. This may make it easier to use such weapons.

16. What Variety of Modern Armaments Exist? Smart Missiles Chemical weapons Biological Weapons Nuclear Weapons

17. Chemical Weapons Chemical warfare involves using the toxic properties of chemical substances as weapons to kill, injure, or incapacitate an enemy.

18. This type of warfare is distinct from the use of conventional weapons or nuclear weapons because the destructive effects of chemical weapons are not due to their explosive force.

19. What Effects Do Chemical Weapons Have? Chemical weapons can be grouped into the following categories: - Choking Agents: causing the lungs to fill with fluid Blood Agents: preventing cells from absorbing oxygen Nerve Agents: Interferes with the nerve functions Blister Agents: Causes harm to the lining of the lungs

20. What Effects Do Chemical Weapons Have? Chemical weapons were used during WW1 but not WW2. Mustard gas harms the lining of the lungs and burns the skin

21. What Effects Do Chemical Weapons Have? Saddam Hussein also used mustard gas against the Kurds in Northern Iraq in the late 1980s Thousands were killed as they were a threat to his rule over Iraq

22. Agent Orange Vietnam

23. Chemical Weapons: The Benefits They are highly effective No buildings are destroyed They can be delivered from safe distances in cheap missiles They can disable troops instead of killing them They can be introduced in a variety of ways (water supply, air conditioning system etc)‏ After 2-3 days the contamination dissipates

24. What are the dangers of chemical weapons?

25. Chemical Weapons: The Dangers They might be released accidentally They are very easy to create and can fall into the wrong hands Unknown side affects As soon as you use them, your enemy will have ‘permission’ to use them back on you It is an inhumane way to kill (you can spend 30 agonizing minutes as the gas chokes you to death)‏

26. Chemical weapons are classified as weapons of mass destruction by the United Nations, and their production and stockpiling was outlawed by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993.

27. What Variety of Modern Armaments Exist? Smart Missiles Chemical weapons Biological Weapons Nuclear Weapons

28. Biological Weapons Biological warfare is also known as germ warfare It is similar to chemical warfare in many respects

29. Biological Warfare: A New Thing? It is said that during the Bubonic plague, in the old days, people would catapult rotting corpses into their enemies castles to cause disease to spread.

30. Anthrax

31. In the Post

34. The Effects Respiratory infection in humans initially presents with cold or flu like symptoms for several days, followed by severe (and often fatal) respiratory collapse.

35. Biological Warfare: The Benefits Easy to introduce Cheap and easy to make Very effective Can be used on animals and crops as well May be an effective deterrent

36. Biological Warfare: The Benefits Your own people may get infected accidentally Living viruses and germs can mutate out of control – you may wipe out the human population of earth The enemy may respond violently if they have been fatally infected It breaks the Geneva Convention A zone may never be safe to enter after germs are released

37. Biological weapons are classified as weapons of mass destruction by the United Nations, and their production and stockpiling was outlawed by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention

38. What Variety of Modern Armaments Exist? Smart Missiles Chemical weapons Biological Weapons Nuclear Weapons We will cover nuclear weapons tomorrow

39. Read p250-255 Answer the Qs on p256