Offensive Weapon

The multiple-jointed animals in the phyllum arthropoda do not usually use toxins as offensive weapons. However, a variety of crabs have occasionally been shown to be the cause of food poisoning (25,26). 

Haber agreed to find a chemical weapon. He had already volunteered his services to the military the Prussian ideal was duty and unconditional service to the state. Few statesmen anywhere argued that humanitarian concerns were more important than national interests most Europeans believed that military orders must be obeyed even if they violated moral principles. Haber thought of himself as a latter-day Archimedes, the ancient Greek scientist who served mankind in peace and his fatherland in war. In service to his country, Haber invented a potentially fatal, offensive weapon—poison gas. 

The first offensive weapons used by man were probably stones, and similarly the first objects thrown when mortars were developed were solid, usually spherical, balls of stone or iron. With the development of explosives it was soon realised that it would be more effective to use a hollow missile filled with explosive, designed to burst in the middle of the enemy. Gunpowder was originally used as filling, but has now been completely superseded by high explosives. 

The F. tularensis bacterium can survive for weeks at low temperatures in moist soil, water, hay, straw, and decaying plants and animals (Murray et al. 2005). In addition to its environmental stability, F. tularensis is considered a likely agent for bioterrorism because it can easily be aerosolized to enhance inhalation exposure, and an infective dose may be as few as 10-50 bacteria. Historically, Japan, the Soviet Union, and the United States all worked to weaponize F. tularensis as an offensive weapon, with the Soviet Union continuing its work into the 1990s (Dennis 2004). 

The excision of nucleic acid bases by hydrolases can be both a repair mechanism for the host and an offensive weapon by competitors. There is a whole array of DNA repair glycosylases, some of which are merely hydrolases, others of which have an associated lyase activity.Catalysing a similar reaction are the proteins, formed in the seeds of many plants, which hydrolyse a ribosyl-adenine bond in the sequence GAGA loop region of the 28S RNA, thus shutting down protein synthesis.No direct determination of reaction stereochemistry has been carried out for either class of enzyme, nor is an X-ray structure of an enzyme-substrate-analogue complex available, but the crystal structures so far available suggest inversion. 

Anxzs. The club was the first offensive weapon. By knots and points it became a mace an edm and a pole converted it to a battle-axe. It was adapted... 

During the war, the CWS used foreign technology for offensive weapons. The initial mode of of-... 

The other offensive weapons for chemical agent attack were to be delivered by either the artillery or the air force. The artillery had available 75-mm,... 

The emphasis shifted away from offensive weapons to development of vaccines, diagnostic systems, personal protection, chemoprophylaxis, and rapid detection systems. 

Several bacterial agents have virulence factors that would enhance their pathogenicity in man. Such additions to a highly infectious but less pathogenic strain could make the modified organisms more attractive candidates for offensive weapons. Countermeasures, including vaccines and antimicrobial drugs, must be developed with this possibility in mind to provide the broadest measure of protection. 

Moreover, since the system was intrinsically unable to be known to be trustworthy, the United States would not give up its nuclear weapons. In turn, the Soviet Union, not sure that the United States system would not work, would launch a major effort to come up with new offensive weapons that could not be defeated by the system. This in turn would prompt the United States to develop a new round of weapons of its own to defeat its enemy s new weapons. For this reason, Parnas believed SDI risked triggering a costly and dangerous new arms spiral. ... 

Biological warfare remains a threat, with many countries stiU developing offensive weapons. An awareness of the dangers and general principles of management is necessary for emergency personnel as well as law enforcement and even the general public. 

Disarmers feared not only what might happen should these weapons be retained, but also what would happen since they believed that competition in armaments inevitably led to war. Convinced that this had caused the outbreak of the First World War, they regarded the reduction and limitation of armaments in general, and the total prohibition of more offensive weapons like poison gas, as absolutely essential. Few doubted the intrinsic difficulty of the task, often turning to Major Lefebure s proposals for internationalising the control of the chemical industry, but they generally insisted that disarmament could not be effective without a curb upon the potential of chemical warfare. 

The boy claimed that he had been playing childish games on the beach with other Mods and came off the beach with a piece of wood which he had been kicking about on the sand. Hetossed it on a pile of rubbish by the steps. Apoliceman said Pick that up laddie" and like a fool I did. He arrested me and I was charged with carrying an offensive weapon. ... 

It s a pity that you didn t stick to your knitting (to a ig-year-old knitting worker fined o for carrying an offensive weapon). 

To a 19-year-old plumber s mate accused of carrying a roll of newspaper with coins in the middle as an offensive weapon I don t suppose you were using this newspaper to further your literary aspirations. ... 

Perhaps your school will consider a framed reproduction of your conviction (to a 17-year-old grammar school boy fined 75 for possessing an offensive weapon and using threatening behaviour). 

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