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| British Soldiers in gas exercise with their Vickers machine gun (Picture 1) |
Kimmo Huosionmaa
There was suspected gas-attack in the Middle-East, and the gas what was used is probably chlorine. This is normal procedure when someone wants to create chemical weapons. The development of those chemicals is against international law, but the chlorine is and other that kind of chemicals are problematic because they are needed for cleaning the water of swimming pools. Production of the chlorine is very easy and cheap. The electrolytic process will break the salt molecules, and then there will release the chlorine and sodium, and the production of that gas, what was used already in the First World War.
The use of chemical agents in the war is very effective, but the problem with those weapons is, that they have no effect against military personnel. The military personnel has normally the protective clothes and the gas masks, and of course, they can get atropine what protects them against the nerve-agents like VX. The gas strike is normally the strike, where is used two types of chemical, the conventional chemical gas like chlorine or phosgene and the same time the enemy will target by nerve-agents. The gas mask protects against the most chemical agents, what will destroy lungs, and the protective suit protects normally against mustard gas. But the nerve agent will kill the person because it can infect the target straight thru the protective gear and the dose what comes thru the skin will kill the target in the seconds.
The idea of this strike is that the atropine must be taken by nail, and in the gas, the strike will have more killing effect if the protective suit will be broken. But nowadays there would be systems, what protects the personnel from the gas. The most effective way to protect the person from nerve gasses is to give the military personnel same kind of atropine capsule, what is used in the cure for drug addiction and alcoholism. Those capsules look like Antabuse-capsules, but they will release atropine in the blood vessels.
Those capsules are created against the poison of sea snakes, what has the same effect than nerve gasses. Also, the modified insulin-pumps are tested against those feared chemicals. Those insulin-pumps are the same kind of things that are used by persons, who have diabetes but who want to hobby sports. Those pumps are equipped with the gas detectors, and they will give the atropine to the blood immediately after the gas is delivered to the area. The reason, why the military forces have dropped gas-weapons out the arsenal is probably that those weapons will not leave marks for killing to the bodies.
And if the army will lay down after the chemical attack, and then the soldiers will raise up and start to fight in the middle of attackers, would the result be devastating. Also, the chemicals could be flying by the wind to the attacker's own lines, and that would cause own casualties. The gas weapon is only the terror weapon, what is effective only against civilians. There have been made investigations, where the nerve gas molecule is tried to connect to the iron atom, what allows the control of the gas with magnet fields.
That might be one of the worst scenarios, what the international law ever faced. The developing of those weapons is strictly prohibited, but CIA and some other intelligence services have been investigated the snake poison in the poison bullets and poisoned arrows, what can be shoot with the same kind of guns, what are used to sleep the animals. And of course the air-guns are interested those intelligence and espionage personnel, and the sea-snakes poison can be shoot to the target used very sharp nail and airgun. The poison is very lethal, and it can kill the target in the seconds.
Sources
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42675657
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