Weapons of mass destruction

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'''Weapons of Mass Destruction''' or '''WMD''' can consist of stockpiles, production facilities, or the human know-how to manufacture weapons designed to kill a large number of people. WMD begins with research and development among persons with highly specialized scientific and technical training. This requires a location and resources to employ such persons with know-how to build production facilities of WMD. Once a location, resources, know-how and production facilities are employed, stockpiles can be built.

Overall it is important to remember that know-how, production facilities, and stockpiles of Weapons of Mass Destruction held by appropriate forces such as [[NATO]] can be beneficial to the balance of world order. Whereas with a rogue dictator such as the late [[Saddam Hussein]] or [[Kim Jong Il]] it would be inappropriate to possess the know-how to create and stockpile WMD, a more stable state that does not threaten international order should be able retain the control of Weapons of Mass Destruction peacefully.

Know-how is the most dangerous aspect of WMD in today's world; persons who receive classroom training in these specialized techniques can travel anywhere in the world where location and resources may be available to produce WMD. Also, communicating the know-how, a potentially lethal weapon to large numbers of people, is largely unregulated in some parts of the world. There are [[United Nations]] Treaties which have attempted to regulate the spread of know-how throughout the world, but it is still possible for a person with know-how to communicate their knowledge how to manufacture WMD to anyone, without the signatory of the International agreements who holds their place of citizenship knowing of the illegal transfer or being able to stop it.

The International scientific community of technicians with knowledge to teach and manufacture weapons of mass destructions likewise consist of independent persons, some with no national loyalties to the nations who have signed International agreements barring the spread of WMD, i.e. the know-how, potential "dual use" technologies, or the end manufactured result. A young person trained today, be it in a NATO country or an al-Qaeda training camp, in the methods of producing stockpiles of WMD, has an entire lifespan to communicate his knowledge to whomsoever he pleases. And a persons political or ideological views can change over a lifetime. In the old Soviet system, scientists were often retired to special [[Gulag]]s apart from the rest of society, so as there would be no chance they can reveal the potential lethal know-how to unauthorized persons.

One of the most troubling aspects of the [[War on Terror]] is understanding that scientific knowledge itself has become a weapon in the hands of dangerous persons against innocent people.

In times of crisis, the habit has been to call upon our best, brightest and most talented individuals to find solutions. This usually in the past meant scientists and technicians; now we have discovered in the War on Terror knowledge itself has become a dangerous thing, and new gadgets and technology cannot defeat terrorist cells who do not wear the easily identifiable military uniforms as is custom throughout the Western world. In fact, we've discovered past scientific and technical solutions in warfare now threaten the civil populations of the nations that discovered and built them. Knowledge indeed is a weapon.

== Types of WMD ==

Weapons of mass destruction were termed by the U.S. military, as late as the 1980s, as [[nuclear]], [[chemical]], and [[biological]] (or NBC) weapons designed to kill large numbers of personnel or civilians with a single device.

==Saddam Hussein and WMD==

Eygptian President [[Hosni Mubarek]] and Libyan [[Socialist]] General Secretary [[Muammar Gaddafi]] in negotiations with [[Saddam Hussein]] relayed a message through Italian Prime Minister [[Silvio Berlusconi]] and Spanish President [[Jose Maria Aznar]] to UK Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]] and US President [[George W. Bush]] that Saddam would be willing to avoid removal by force and voluntarily go into exile, provided Saddam was allowed to take $1 billion dollars and "all the information he wants about [[weapons of mass destruction]]." <ref>[http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2007/09/saddam_risked_his_life_for_wmd_1.asp Saddam Risked His Life for WMD Secrets], ''WeeklyStandard.com. Spetember 29, 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003646639 Scoop for Spanish Daily: Transcript of Private 2003 Bush Talk Promising Iraq Invasion], ''Editor & Publisher'', September 26, 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/26/AR2007092602414.html Report Says Hussein Was Open To Exile Before 2003 Invasion], He Is Said to Have Sought $1 Billion and Information on Arms, By Karen DeYoung and Michael Abramowitz, ''[[Washington Post]], September 27, 2007; Page A17.</ref><ref>[http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/Llego/momento/deshacerse/Sadam/elpepunac/20070926elpepinac_1/Tes Llegó el momento de deshacerse de Sadam], ''El Pais'', 26/09/2007. (In Spanish).</ref> Of course after all of this work and a total invasion of Iraq , which has left the country basicly crippled, there has been no finding of a single WMD. It is now widely know that Bush was either wrong or lying to the country when he report that Saddum had WMD. In fact the majorty or weapons used against Americans in Iraq are legal weapons own by Iraq's military that was poorly guarded by American troops and have since been stolen. By all standards the use of weapons and tatics used against troops have been weapons eiter poorly guarded or given to them in the past from America and tatics tought to the country by America.

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North American Indians

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'''North American Indians''' (also '''Native Americans''') are the descendants of those groups that migrated from Asia to North America at the end of the last [[Ice Age]]. The Native Americans of North America are typically considered to be all those tribes north of Central Mexico. While technically part of North America, most archaeologists tend to place the civilizations of Central Mexico into a separate category.<ref>Swidler, Nina, Dongoske, Roger. 1997. ''Native Americans and Archaeologists: Stepping Stones to Common Ground.'' Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press.</ref> Tribes in North America maintained a wide variety of [[subsistence pattern]]s, from hunting and gathering, to intensive agriculture. North America is also home to two of the most unusual groups of hunter-gatherers, the Northwest Coast tribes, and the Aleuts. The first Native Americans are believed to have migrated from Asia via the [[Bering land bridge]], the exposed continental shelf between Asia and N. America during the last Ice Age. There are also those that subscribe to a similar migration by sea that followed the ancient coastline from Asia around the Bering land mass. A small group of researchers claim to have uncovered evidence of possible migration from Europe during the same time period, but the evidence is still heavily contested.

While the American Indian population once numbered over 100 million, over 90% were killed by [[smallpox|European diseases]] and fighting with the U.S. and European governments over their land. The indians that survived the savage attacks and germ like warfare were then forced off there land and pushed into reservations. It is well known that Americans wiped out nearly all of indians and force the others to subcome to our lifestyles.<ref>[http://www.powersource.com/cocinc/history/trail.htm Trail of Tears]</ref>

== Culture Areas of North America ==

American Indians of North America are generally divided into culture areas according to similarities in geography, environment, subsistence patterns, language family, and similar social practices. According to the ''Handbook of North American Indians'', there are ten such cultural areas.<ref>Washburn, Wilcomb E. 1998. ''Handbook Of North American Indians, Vol. 4, History of Indian-White Relations.'' Washington: Smithsonian Institute.</ref>
;Arctic
:Greenland, extreme northern Canada, and the northern and western coastlines of Alaska.
;Subarctic
:Most of central Canada and interior Alaska.
;Northeast
:New England, Nova Scotia, the Great Lakes region, the Chesapeake Bay area, and most of current day W. Virginia, the Ohio River valley, and Illinois.
;Southeast
:N. Carolina excluding the NE corner, western Virginia, southern W. Virginia, and all the southern states east of the Mississippi River, in addition to parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, and eastern Texas.
;Plains
:the entire Midwest United States from Texas north to southern parts of Canada.
;Southwest
:Central Mexico north into W. Texas, NM, and AZ.
;Great Basin
:Nevada, Utah, N. Arizona, W. Colorado, W. Wyoming, S. Idaho, SE Oregon, and parts of W. California.
;California
:Interior and Coastal California and N. Baja.
;Northwest Coast
:N. California to S. Alaska along 1500 miles of coastline.
;Plateau
:Parts of Oregon, Washington, N. Idaho, W. Montana, and SW Canada.

== References ==
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==See Also==

[[American Indian]]

[[Native American]]

[[Trail of Tears]]

[[Jamestown Massacre]]

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