Swallowed by the Sea: Amazing Underwater Pictures
The Rainbow Warrior sunk after being bombed off Auckland harbor in 1985, and because Greenpeace demonstrators were using the boat as part of a protest of French nuclear testing, the French Secret Service was implicated in the bombing. Although there was an attempt to fix the ship, it was deemed beyond repair and was resunk in the ocean.
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All's Fair in Love and Germ Warfare:
Bioterrorism Agents Pictures
This … is anthrax. No, not the thrash metal band -- the disease. More specifically, this is the Bacillus anthracis bacteria, which is the biological agent that causes the disease. This scanning electron micrograph shows a highly magnified culture of spores from the Sterne strain of the bacteria. Anthrax is the Abrams tank of germ warfare: tough, resilient, adaptable and deadly. And we're not just speaking hypothetically -- unlike many proposed bioterrorism agents, anthrax spores have already been used in the world of terrorism, to murder civilians and cause panic among a targeted population. To see more images of this infinitesimal assassin and other potential biological weapons
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