These antibodies then mobilise the body's immune defences to attack and destroy the cells.

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War is the use of military force to attack another nation and damage or destroy its capability and will to resist.

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As the enemy forces attacked with even greater ferocity, unleashing a barrage of rocket-propelled grenades and recoilless rifle rounds, Staff Sergeant Romesha identified the point of attack and directed air support to destroy over 30 enemy fighters.

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With many diseases, the immune system is able to recognise the invading bacteria as foreign and launch an attack, sending special defence cells to latch onto and destroy.

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An EMP attack can destroy a state's electromagnetic grid and thus take a 21st-century economy back to the pre-industrial era.

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According to Shelton, that explanation was enough to satisfy this officer, whose responsibility was to confirm the security of the codes necessary to control weapons that could literally destroy all life on Earth and that hopefully deter an attack on the US with similar weapons, and no one checked again that month.

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