How Can Biological Attacks Be Used to Hamper or Deter

question 37

Multiple Choice

How can biological attacks be used to hamper or deter U.S. intervention abroad?

• A) A nuclear bomb would devastate millions of lives.
• B) Military in the Middle East do not carry around gas masks due to the heat, therefore they are susceptible to things like Sarin gas.
• C) Such strategies might involve the use of disease agents to attack troops or civilians, destroy U.S. crops or livestock, or contaminate the nation's food supply.
• D) Someone could poison the food at a meeting of the UN and eliminate several national leaders at the same time. Western nations, then leaderless, would likely resort to anarchy.

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