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Coming Military Uses Of Nanotechnology

Staff Reporter - India Daily

2-28-5

 

 

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science as well as defense

research organizatrions are working on understanding the impacts of

Nano-technologies in military application in coming years. While

Nano-technologies can provide enormous benefits, it can also be used

by the militaries of the world in creating weapons of mass destruction

that we cannot even imagine with a conventional mind set.

 

Nanotechnology is the generic name given to the production or use of

very small, or " nano " particles. These are particles that are less

than 100 nanometers or about one-thousandth the width of a human hair.

A nanometer is 1 billionth of a meter.

 

Nanotechnology is likely to be extremely important in the future as it

allows materials to be built up atom by atom. This can lead to the

development of new materials that are better suited for their purpose.

There are several branches of nanotechnology, but most of them are in

an early stage with the only nanotechnologies that are commercially

available at present being ultra fine powders and coatings. These are

used in a variety of products including sunscreens and self-cleaning

glass, but the list of materials being developed commercially using

nanotechnology is likely to grow at a very fast rate.

 

Other forms of nanotechnology being developed include tiny sensors

called nano-units, of which some simple types are available: " smart

materials " that change in response to light or heat; " nano-bots " -

tiny mobile robots that have yet to be developed but are theoretically

possible; and self-assembling nano-materials that can be assembled

into larger equipment.

 

Military use of Nano-technologies in immediate use can be classified

in three main ways. Militaries of many countries have established

weapons with Nano-techs.

 

First, nano-materials massively damage the lungs. Ultra fine particles

from diesel machines, power plants and incinerators can cause

considerable damage to human lungs. This is both because of their size

(as they can get deep into the lungs) and also because they carry

other chemicals including metals and hydrocarbons in with them.

 

Second, nano-particles can get into the body through the skin, lungs

and digestive system. This may help create free radicals that can

cause cell damage. There is also concern that once nano-particles are

in the bloodstream, they will be able to cross the blood-brain barrier.

 

Third, the human body has developed a tolerance to most naturally

occurring elements and molecules that it has contact with. It has no

natural immunity to new substances and is more likely to find them toxic.

 

Fourth, the most dangerous Nano-application use for military purposes

is the Nano-bomb that contain engineered self multiplying deadly

viruses that can continue to wipe out a community, country or even a

civilization.

 

Militaries all around the world is about to embark upon the use of

Nano-materials, Nano-bots and Nano-technologies that will make current

Weapons of mass Destruction look miniscule.

 

Armies of enormous strengths can be wiped out slowly without even

fighting a single battle. The soldiers may never know that they have

been nano-poisoned.

 

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