Terrorism1
Imagine this scenario: You and another fifteen thousand hockey fans decide to spend the night watching the Washington Capitals take on the Philadelphia Flyers. You get your tickets, your food, and your program and you sit down in your seat. You can barely wait for the game to start, let alone end, because you have so much money riding on this game. The 7:00 face-off begins exactly at 7:00, and thousands of eager hockey fans sit back to watch the game. Shortly after the face-off, terrorists trigger an explosive charge that showers poisonous chemicals over you and the rest of the crowd. The new stadium has become a hellhole of death and confusion. People all around you reel in all directions as others push their way to clogged exits. Fans are falling to the ground choking and coughing. Their skin blisters instantly. Other attempting to help become victims themselves after breathing the poisoned air. The city's 911 emergency lines flood with calls for help and medical assistance. Police and fire fighters arrive within minutes and set up a staging area upwind, but keep their distance. No one knows yet what sort of lethal chemical the terrorists have exploded upon you. Authorities block off the neighborhood, seeking to c
Biochemical warfare is another inexpensive way to cause massive destruction. They are now called "poor man's nukes". Information on how to make and use these weapons is also easy to find on the internet, and ingredients can be purchased through the mail. (Terrorists Find New Tools) This means that anyone could find this information; anyone whose curiosity takes over may decide to build and use a weapon like this. These are not the kind of weapons you would use to kill off two or three people; such weapons are thought to soon become tools of choice in a new age of terrorism where killers seek to threaten large numbers of people. (Terrorists Find New Tools) Many people would probably quit dining out after hearing a story like this. That's why terrorism is such a problem today. It affects so many people in so many different ways that it may someday cause the end of the world as we know it. The only to begin to get rid of terrorism is to find out what it is caused by. Fema: Backgrounder - Terrorism. Hp. 10 Jan. 1999 [Last Update]. Online. Federal Emergency Management Agency. Available: http://www.fema.gov/library/terror.htm. 22 Nov. 2000 Bombing is one terrorist act that has been around it seems forever. It affects not only the victims, but their family, friends, co-workers, and etc. Bombs are used by many terrorists because of the ease in which they can be used. They are extremely easy to make these days, and instructions are simpler than ever to come across. Because of the internet, it's possible to type one word, hit one key and find hundreds of different bomb sights. They show the ingredients of any kind of bomb, how to make them, how big the explosion will be, and many other interesting facts that any terrorist-to-be would love to know. This makes it very easy for anyone, especially young, curious internet surfers, to create a bomb and all the destruction it causes. In fact, the most common explosive device encountered in the USA is the pipe bomb, which is easy to build and just as easy to detonate. (Explosive Statistics) Online. ABCNEWS. Available: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/terrorism_face.html. 22 Nov. 2000. Biochemical warfare is another terrorist act that is extremely dangerous and equally frightening. Biochemical warfare is the use of biological and chemical weapons. They can be silently sprayed from an aerosol can, sprinkled from a small plane, or dispersed from the exhaust of a car passing through town. They may inflict days of swelling pain, then death. Their effects can be devastating. Some cause people to choke, gasp and vomit as intense pain knots their stomachs; nerves numb, muscles contract, fever grips the body, blisters and ulcers lace the skin. Others kill almost instantly, leaving no time for medics to distribute treatments. (Terrorists Find New Tools) These chemicals can be what you least expect them to be. In Ohio, authorities arrested a man for ordering vials containing the bubonic plague. The destruction he could've caused with this plague could have been enormous. (Litke, Mark) Although chemicals can't create as much damage to surrounding properties as bombing can, they aren't any more preferable.
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