Worst Chemical/biological Warfare Agents
<div class="IPBDescription">For Comparison...</div> Same like the 'Worst Disease' thread but this time with Chemical/Biological Warfare agents....
I would really like to see what some of the crazy stuff the governments of the world have made...
its open now, take it away....
I would really like to see what some of the crazy stuff the governments of the world have made...
its open now, take it away....
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<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>The "V" of VX signifies it long persistence. So it is more dangerous and toxic than its cousins of the "G" variety like GA (Tabun) and GB (Sarin), which dissipate quickly and have only short-term effects. In the liquid form of VX, it is absorbed through the eyes or the skin of the victim. It takes an hour or two to take effect and its effects result in death. The gaseous form is more deadly than the liquid form and acts almost immediately on the victim. The effects are worst when it is inhaled and death is an end to the suffering. </span><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
On top of that, VX is one of the rare chemical warfare agents that can't be stopped with napalm. It just doesn't burn.
If we're talking nasty after-effects rather than lethality, then mustard gas may be the winner.
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>Dichlorethylsulphide: the most dreaded of all chemical weapons in World War I - mustard gas. Unlike the other gases which attack the respiratory system, this gas acts on any exposed, moist skin. This includes, but is not limited to, the eyes, lungs, armpits and groin. A gas mask could offer very little protection. The oily agent would produce large burn-like blisters wherever it came in contact with skin. It also had a nasty way of hanging about in low areas for hours, even days, after being dispersed. A soldier jumping into a shell crater to seek cover could find himself blinded, with skin blistering and lungs bleeding.</span><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Is this game too easy or are my pastimes less than wholesome?
<a href='http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=47180' target='_blank'>http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/conten...?recordid=47180</a>
Its extremly easy to make. Just need the bacteria Clostridia. Its fairly easy to neutralize though. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
Its extremly easy to make. Just need the bacteria Clostridia. Its fairly easy to neutralize though. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Or produced in medical facilities so that old women can have it injected into their skin to look as if they have no muscles in their face.
I study military history and there's just some things that make me sick. Looking at the results of gas attacks in WWI is one of those things. I hope to every deity in the universe that nothing happens in Iraq with chemical weapons.
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->One of the world’s most dangerous chemical warfare agents. Sarin is an extremely toxic substance that disrupts the nervous system, overstimulating muscles and vital organs. It can be inhaled as a gas or absorbed through the skin. In high doses, sarin suffocates its victims by paralyzing the muscles around their lungs. One hundred milligrams of sarin—about one drop—can kill the average person in a few minutes if he or she’s not given an antidote. Experts say sarin is more than 500 times as toxic as cyanide. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Here's something I found while googling around trying to find out the name of the plant used to extract one of the main components of Sarin. I know the plant's name in Finnish (my native language) is "Risiini", but I can't remember what it was called in english.
<img src='http://personal.inet.fi/private/scinet/persist.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
I made mustard gas by accident in chemistry once. (sometime in the early 90s) My teacher wasn't pleased.
It's super infective can spread worldwide within a month. There are many drug/vaccine resistant forms and you have a one in three chance of dying from it.
Oh and if you get a sample of it you can grow it cheaply.
Not too shabby as a terror weapon
My fear is smallpox combined with something like Golden Staph which is immune to antibiotics. I mean that's a doomsday weapon right there.
And according to my science student fiancee who is standing over my shoulder something like this wouldn't be hard to do. Scary stuff indeed...
(Prion btw is like a virus but instead its just a portien)
My fear is smallpox combined with something like Golden Staph which is immune to antibiotics. I mean that's a doomsday weapon right there.
And according to my science student fiancee who is standing over my shoulder something like this wouldn't be hard to do. Scary stuff indeed... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I dont think gangrene is a bacterial agent. If i am not mistaken, it is nothing more than part of the body dying.
A fairly disturbing thought: In highschool a friend of mine was a TA for the AP bio/chem teacher for the school. As part of the course you have to do experiments with E.Coli. Well, one day this guy was putting all these petri dishes of the stuff away and dropped the whole pile on the floor. As he said, "well, good thing those didnt break"
Dont know what this is getting at...l
The government was working on a chemical weapon called NCS-109. It was supposed to be like invisible napalm and only detecable when you were 1. Being burned alive by it, or 2. Had thermal goggles. It was abbandoned in 1976 after Vietnam for unknown reasons.