Writing about the bullets and botulinum bacteria

Writing about the bullets and botulinum bacteria

1. Even ancient Spartans knew chemical weapons

Chemical and other ways poisoned ammunition are not a new thing in the history. Even ancient Spartans put the stool on their arrows, that they would cause more painful wounds, which will erupt because of those bacteria. Then somebody invented that botulinum bacteria is very easy to put on the bullet and that bacteria would cause horrifying poisoning.

The bacteria is really easy to transfer to the bullet because only touching the melted flesh is enough. And that makes this thing really complicated thing because the Hague contract prohibits the use of chemical weapons including poisoned bullets, but the accidents happen. And if the ammunition drops to the stool of the animal there is nothing, what can be done because the prosecutors would need to prove the deliberative action in those cases.

2. Deliberate action must be shown by prosecutors

There have been tales, that some military forces have used bullets, what have been stored with the rotten flesh. In fact, if the bullet is dipped in the flesh, and after that covered by using the varnish, or stored in anaerobic conditions the botulinum bacteria will start to form the poison, what is called as botulinum.

That neurotoxin is the most poisonous chemical combination in the world. This kind of things are very lethal chemical bullets, but the thing is that these kind of things are really hard to prove to made in purpose.

3. In those cases, the prosecutors must show that the crimes have been done in purpose

The thing is that sometimes bullets are dropped in the stool or some other non-sterile point on the ground, and the combatant must use that thing. And if the poisoning of the bullet is not made in purpose, the thing is not the war crime.

But if the ammunition is poisoned in purpose, the thing is a war crime. In those cases, the prosecutors must show that the action has been made on purpose. And if some bullet is dropped on the ground during the combat, that is nobody's fault.