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The earliest forms of WMD's were developed by the ancient Greek hero Hercules after he slew the multiheaded Hydra. Adrienne Major argues that "...by stepping his arrows in the monsters venom, Hercules created the first biological weapons." Toxic arrows were the terror weapons of the Bronze Age. Adrienne Major states that "Almost as soon as they were created, poison weapons set the motion of the relentless train of tragedies for Hercules and the Greeks - …

…nuclear, chemical and biological weapons constantly increasing, America Alone as spent $3.5 trillion from 1940 to 1995 to prepare to fight a nuclear war Maintaining WMD's by Nation for deterrence is spiralling danger as one day the "rough states" could call the deterrents bluff. Then the policy of actual use of WMD will take place. Hence world war 3 could see the possession of power resulting in total destruction of societies or civilisations if not of total human existence.