-Caveat Lector- goldi316 wrote:
> http://www.vectorsite.net/twgas3.html > The following info from the author is taken from another page of the above article, which I found to be totally silent on the US history of Biological and Chemical Warfare. One would get the impression from reading this rather incomplete history that the US has NEVER been involved with this pernicious form of weapons development. It is especially telling in the section on Iraq that the author does not mention (did he not know?) that the US SUPPLIED Iraq with the materials and equipment to build their program. When reading this information, please keep in mind that it is biased. http://www.vectorsite.net/twgas4.html#m3 [4.3] COMMENTS, SOURCES, & REVISION HISTORY * My sole involvement with chemical weapons was the gas training I was provided during my US Army Basic Combat Training session at Ford Ord, California, in the fall of 1972. All trainees were required to go into a room full of CS aerosol powder and inhale it to give them an appreciation of what gas can do, a training technique that goes back to gas training in WWI. I compare being tear-gassed to having my head shoved into a bucket full of hot pepper sauce and chili powder and being forced to inhale and swallow. It was very effective training, as I haven't forgotten it in thirty years. We were also given familiarization with the use of gas masks, though the only full-body protection we had available was to put on a rain poncho, and were given a short training session with atropine auto-injectors and, I vaguely recall, decontamination powders. I read a book on CB warfare while I was in the Army and was amused at the experiments with hallucinogenic gases. Recreational drug use was widespread and blatant in the US Army in the early 1970s, though there was a crackdown later in the decade. I joked with a pal that if our guys were attacked with hallucinogenic gases, they'd tear off their gas masks and inhale as much as they could, and the enemy wouldn't be able to tell the difference. * Concerning the use of CS powder in Vietnam: I once met a fellow who said they used it to render VC bunkers uninhabitable. If US soldiers simply blew up the bunkers, the hole and position were still basically intact and could easily be restored to effectiveness. According to my acquaintance, however, the VC hated CS, and instead of demolishing the bunkers he and his team built charges with a combination of explosive and CS that thoroughly dispersed the powder through the bunker. The VC wouldn't use the bunker again. I speculate that they had been trained to believe that the powder was lethal, or that the Americans were likely to sooner or later sneak in other gases that were lethal. * Experiences with natural biotoxins gives me a great respect for what they could do if used as a weapon. In the early 1980s, I had a session for a few months where everything seemed to go wrong at once, with troubles including food poisoning and contact with poison oak. The food poisoning involved an all-night session in agony that I visualized at the time was being under torture. After a few hours of it, I would have given away any secret to make it stop. In the morning, I was purged, drained, white, and feeble. I suspect I would have been killed if I had been old or in bad health. Poison oak exposure itself resulted in no more than a severe red, itching, swollen rash that took about a week to subside, though I had a friend who took a dose of it and had an allergic reaction, with his face hideously puffed up. However, after the worst of my exposure was over I kept having minor relapses on my forearms and facial areas. Some of the oily toxins had rubbed off on doorknobs and the like, and I had to give my apartment a thorough cleaning to put a stop to the relapses. When I finally found out what mustard gas was and what it could do while writing this document, I recollected I'd been through an experience that gave me a mild taste of what it was like. * This document evolved out of some notes taken from a six-part historical television documentary titled SCIENCE AT WAR, broadcast on the US History Channel in 1999, which included individual installments on chemical and biological warfare. The installment on chemical warfare focused strongly on the tragedy of Fritz and Clara Haber, which is such a neatly Shakespearian melodrama that I found it a bit hard to believe. However, the facts do bear it out. More formal sources for this document include: A HIGHER FORM OF KILLING by Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman, Hill & Wang, 1982. This is one of the best-known books on bio-chemical warfare, and this document owes a great deal to it. It is a detailed and thorough book, though the authors do not have deep technical backgrounds and seem to tend towards overstatement. BIOHAZARD by Ken Alibek with Stephen Handelman, Random House, 1999. This is a largely biographical book that has some interesting bits of information. For example, Alibek says that the extensive immunizations and repeated decontaminations he endured while working for Biopreparat gave him the widest range of allergies of anyone he'd ever met, and destroyed his sense of smell and the ability to produce skin oils. He lives on a troublesome regimen of medications and skin lotions. "The Whore Of Babylon And The Horseman Of Plague", THE ECONOMIST, 12 April 1997, 79:82. "Terrorism's Next Wave" by David E. Kaplan, US NEWS & WORLD REPORT, 17 November 1997, 28:31. "Bombs, Gas, And Microbes: The Desperate Efforts To Block The Road To Doomsday", THE ECONOMIST, 6 June 1998, 23:25. "Biological Warfare Against Crops" by Paul Rogers, Simon Whitby, and Malcolm Dando, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, June 1999, 70:75. "Germ Warfare Takes On Strategic Dimensions" by Paul Mann, AVIATION WEEK, 4 September 2000, 91:92. "Down To The Wire On Bioweapons Talks" by Richard Stone, AAAS SCIENCE, 20 July 2001, 414:416. The MitreTech website has a wide range of well-organized and rather technical materials on biological and chemical warfare. The section on chemical agents on the MitreTech site provides a number of strong warnings that trying to synthesize a CB agent is extremely dangerous. I have not included such warnings in this document, as there is almost no prospect that anyone could use this survey to actually produce a CB agent. I have doubts such warnings make sense. 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