WMD or CBRNE

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WMD or CBRNE

• Chemical
• Biological
• Radiological
• Nuclear
• High Energy Explosives

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Steps to Use of WMD

• Belief in mass casualties
• Acquisition of materials
• Weaponization
• Delivery
• Getting Caught?
• Does it serve political purposes?
• Having them vs. Using them?

3
Biological Weapons

• Viruses
• Bacteria
• Fungi
• Rickettsia
• toxins

4
Aum Shinrikyo
5
Anthrax Attacks 2001Amerithrax Investigation
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What Nations Have Biological Weapons?

• Canada
• China
• Cuba
• France
• Germany
• Iran
• Iraq
• Israel 

• Japan
• Libya
• North Korea
• Russia
• South Africa
• Syria, Taiwan
• United Kingdom
• United States.

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Atomic and Nuclear Weapons
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Who Has Nuclear Weapons?

• US (1945) Working on it
• Russia (1949) Iran?
• UK (1952)
• France (1960)
• China (1964)
• Israel (Shhhhhdate unclear)
• India (1998)
• Pakistan (1998)
• North Korea (2006)

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Would a State Give a Terrorist Group WMD?

• Yes
• Mutual interests
• Covert attack
• Ideology
• Undeterrable states

• No
• For deterrence, not use
• For power
• Unreliability of groups
• traceability

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• Dirty Bombs (Radiological weapons)
• Nuclear Power Plants

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WMD Use

• A Political decision?
• Does a group want mass casualties?
• Will it actually use a weapon?
• Will it bargain? Blackmail?