Terrorist Attacks Using Toxic Industrial Term Paper

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Examples of Previous Attacks Using Toxic Industrial Chemicals

The earliest example of the use of chemical weapons occurred during World War I when both groups of adversaries in the conflict (the Central Powers and the Allies) used chlorine and phosgene-- two of the most commonly available toxic industrial chemicals these days -- against each other, resulting in almost 100,000 deaths.

The most famous example of the use of TICs was the 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo subways by "Aum Shinrikyo" -- a Japanese apocalyptic cult -- that resulted in the death of 12 people and the hospitalization of thousands. Sarin gas was produced by the terrorists with the help of commonly available toxic industrial chemicals such as dimethyl methylphosphonate, phosphorus trichloride, sodium fluoride and alcohol (Bloomfield). To avoid handling the highly toxic sarin, Aum Shinrikyo created its binary components, and mixed the two at the site of attack; thus releasing the gas.

Saddam Hussain used chemical weapons against the Iranian army during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s; and on his own people to crush a Kurdish rebellion in 1988 resulting in thousands of deaths.

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These attacks, of course, were not made directly with TIC but with chemical weapons that may have been manufactured by using TICs.

Although there was no conclusive evidence of sabotage or terrorist involvement in the Union Carbide pesticide factory incident in Bhopal, India, it provides us with a pertinent example of the likely damage in a major terrorist attack on a chemical facility and/or the efect of a TIC attack by terrorists. The incident caused leakage of over 40 tons of methyl isocyante (MIC) gas, resulting in over 8,000 deaths.

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