The idea of public health is to promote a safe environment to protect the health of the population.
As times progress, science has drastically changed. What scientists back then would believe to be impossible has now been achieved. Technology is one of the main reasons for allowing us to advance in science. As the research and discoveries expand our knowledge and understanding it also provides the ability to inflict and create biological weapons. Genetic engineering progressed causing terrorists to use biological viruses as weapons. The ethical issues caused by bioterrorism are obvious and overt. The damage that nuclear and chemical weapons threat is irreversible, these attacks will have a long-term effect on the victims.It will affect …show more content…
Fritz Haber, also known as the “father of chemical weapons”, invented the Haber-Bosch process which synthesized ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. The Haber-Bosch process played a major role in World War 1 by changing the dynamic of tactics for war. Just three years before that on April 22, 1915, the German forces fired more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas, also known as poison gas, against the French forces. The poison gas caused unusual and inhumane suffering to those who were exposed to it. The gas caused blisters of the outer body and internal organs which eventually led to death. The reasoning for governments to begin using chemical weapons was to essentially attack a large group of forces at once, but soon the governments began to realize that there is no way to control chemical and biological warfare. Not only do chemical warfare pose a threat to the current population but it also affects the future generations to come. Chemical warfare kills and causes genetic mutations in every form of life within its vicinity due to the radiation …show more content…
Nuclear weapons are capable of having long-term consequences due to the radiation and high temperatures. In 1954, the U.S. tested a huge hydrogen bomb in the Marshall I stands and still to this day Marshal Island is unloveable due to the damages of the bomb. The hydrogen bomb or the Bikini Atoll was a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during the Cold War. In a report to the UN human rights council, Calin Georgescu said: “near-irreversible environmental contamination had led to the loss of livelihoods and many people continued to experience indefinite displacement”. In the process, the people not only lost their homes but their culture and traditions. The U.S embassy in Majuro commented on the incident saying “While international scientists did study the effects of that accident on the human population unintentionally affected, the United States never intended for Marshallese to be hurt by the tests.” Proving that we still we do not know enough about nuclear weapons to test them. Till this day, the US is trying to make the Island livable
As times progress, science has drastically changed. What scientists back then would believe to be impossible has now been achieved. Technology is one of the main reasons for allowing us to advance in science. As the research and discoveries expand our knowledge and understanding it also provides the ability to inflict and create biological weapons. Genetic engineering progressed causing terrorists to use biological viruses as weapons. The ethical issues caused by bioterrorism are obvious and overt. The damage that nuclear and chemical weapons threat is irreversible, these attacks will have a long-term effect on the victims.It will affect …show more content…
Fritz Haber, also known as the “father of chemical weapons”, invented the Haber-Bosch process which synthesized ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. The Haber-Bosch process played a major role in World War 1 by changing the dynamic of tactics for war. Just three years before that on April 22, 1915, the German forces fired more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas, also known as poison gas, against the French forces. The poison gas caused unusual and inhumane suffering to those who were exposed to it. The gas caused blisters of the outer body and internal organs which eventually led to death. The reasoning for governments to begin using chemical weapons was to essentially attack a large group of forces at once, but soon the governments began to realize that there is no way to control chemical and biological warfare. Not only do chemical warfare pose a threat to the current population but it also affects the future generations to come. Chemical warfare kills and causes genetic mutations in every form of life within its vicinity due to the radiation …show more content…
Nuclear weapons are capable of having long-term consequences due to the radiation and high temperatures. In 1954, the U.S. tested a huge hydrogen bomb in the Marshall I stands and still to this day Marshal Island is unloveable due to the damages of the bomb. The hydrogen bomb or the Bikini Atoll was a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during the Cold War. In a report to the UN human rights council, Calin Georgescu said: “near-irreversible environmental contamination had led to the loss of livelihoods and many people continued to experience indefinite displacement”. In the process, the people not only lost their homes but their culture and traditions. The U.S embassy in Majuro commented on the incident saying “While international scientists did study the effects of that accident on the human population unintentionally affected, the United States never intended for Marshallese to be hurt by the tests.” Proving that we still we do not know enough about nuclear weapons to test them. Till this day, the US is trying to make the Island livable