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A Soldier's Viewpoint on Surviving
Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Attacks
By: SFC Red Thomas
(Ret) Armor
Master Gunner Mesa, AZ
Unlimited reproduction and distribution is authorized. Just give me
credit for my work, and, keep it in context. Since the media has
decided to scare everyone with predictions of chemical, biological,
or nuclear warfare on our turf, I decided to write a paper and keep
things in their proper perspective. I am a retired military weapons,
munitions, and training expert.
In the mid 1990s there were a series of nerve gas attacks on
crowded Japanese subway stations. Given perfect conditions for an
attack less than 10% of the people there were injured (the injured
were better in a few hours) and only one percent of the injured died.
60 Minutes once had a fellow telling us that one drop of nerve gas
could kill a thousand people, well he didn't tell you the thousand
dead people per drop was theoretical.
Drill Sergeants exaggerate how terrible this stuff was to keep the
recruits awake in class (I know this because I was a Drill Sergeant
too). Forget everything you've ever seen on TV, in the movies, or
read in a novel about this stuff, it was all a lie (read this
sentence again out loud!). These weapons are about terror, if you
remain calm, you will probably not die.
This is far less scary than the media and their "Experts," make it
sound.
Chemical Weapons
Chemical weapons are categorized as:
- Nerve,
- Blood,
- Blister,
and Incapacitating agents.
Contrary to the hype of reporters and politicians they are not
weapons of mass destruction they are "area denial," and terror
weapons that don't destroy anything. When you leave the area you
almost always leave the risk.
That's the difference; you can leave the area and the risk but
soldiers may have to stay put and sit through it and that's why they
need all that spiffy gear. These are not gasses, they are vapors
and/or air borne particles. The agent must be delivered in sufficient
quantity to kill/injure, and that defines when/how it's used. Every
day we have a morning and evening inversion where "stuff," suspended
in the air gets pushed down. This inversion is why allergies (pollen)
and air pollution are worst at these times of the day. So, a chemical
attack will have it's best effect an hour of so either side of
sunrise/sunset. Also, being vapors and airborne particles they are
heavier than air so they will seek low places like ditches, basements
and underground garages. This stuff won't work when it's freezing, it
doesn't last when it's hot, and wind spreads it too thin too fast.
They've got to get this stuff on you, or, get you to inhale it for it
to work. They also have to get the concentration of chemicals high
enough to kill or wound you. Too little and it's nothing, too much
and it's wasted.
What I hope you've gathered by this point is that a chemical weapons
attack that kills a lot of people is incredibly hard to do with
military grade agents and equipment so you can imagine how hard it
will be for terrorists.
The more you know about this stuff the more you realize how hard it
is to use.
We'll start by talking about nerve agents. You have these in your
house, plain old bug killer (like Raid) is nerve agent. All nerve
agents work the same way; they are cholinesterase inhibitors that
mess up the signals your nervous system uses to make your body
function. It can harm you if you get it on your skin but it works
best if they can get you to inhale it. If you don't die in the first
minute and you can leave the area you're probably going to live. The
military's antidote for all nerve agents is atropine and pralidoxime
chloride. Neither one of these does anything to cure the nerve agent,
they send your body into overdrive to keep you alive for five
minutes, after that the agent is used up. Your best protection is
fresh air and staying calm.
Listed below are the symptoms for nerve agent poisoning:
Sudden headache, Dimness of vision (someone you're looking at will
have
pinpointed pupils), runny nose, excessive saliva or drooling,
difficulty breathing, tightness in chest, nausea, stomach cramps,
twitching of exposed skin where a liquid just got on you. If you are
in public and you start experiencing these symptoms, first ask
yourself, did anything out of the ordinary just happen, a loud pop,
did someone spray something on the crowd?
Are other people getting sick too? Is there an odor of new mown hay,
green corn, something fruity, or camphor where it shouldn't be? If
the answer is yes, then calmly (if you panic you breathe faster and
inhale more air/poison) leave the area and head up wind, or, outside.
Fresh air is the best "right now antidote." If you have a blob of
liquid that looks like molasses or Kayro syrup on you; blot it or
scrape it off and away from yourself with anything disposable. This
stuff works based on your body weight, what a crop duster uses to
kill bugs won't hurt you unless you stand there and breathe it in
real deep, then lick the residue off the ground for a while. Remember
they have to do all the work, they have to get the concentration up
and keep it up for several minutes while all you have to do is quit
getting it on you/quit breathing it by putting space between you and
the attack.
Blood agents:
Blood agents are cyanide or arsine which effect your blood's
ability to provide oxygen to your tissue. The scenario for attack
would be the same as nerve agent. Look for a pop or someone
splashing/spraying something and folks around there getting
woozy/falling down. The telltale smells are bitter almonds or garlic
where it shouldn't be. The symptoms are blue lips, blue under the
fingernails rapid breathing. The military's antidote is amylnitride
and just like nerve agent antidote it just keeps your body working
for five minutes till the toxins are used up. Fresh air is the your
best individual chance.
Blister agents:
(distilled mustard) are so nasty that nobody wants to even handle
it let alone use it. It's almost impossible to handle safely and may
have delayed effect of up to 12 hours. The attack scenario is also
limited to the things you'd see from other chemicals. If you do get
large, painful blisters for no apparent reason, don't pop them, if
you must, don't let the liquid from the blister get on any other
area, the stuff just keeps on spreading. It's just as likely to harm
the user as the target. Soap, water, sunshine, and fresh air are this
stuff's enemy.
Bottom line on chemical weapons (it's the same if they use industrial
chemical spills); they are intended to make you panic, to terrorize
you, to heard you like sheep to the wolves. If there is an attack,
leave the area and go upwind, or to the sides of the wind stream.
They have to get the stuff to you, and on you. You're more likely to
be hurt by a drunk driver on any given day than be hurt by one of
these attacks. Your odds get better if you leave the area. Soap,
water, time, and fresh air really deal this stuff a knock-out-punch.
Don't let fear of an isolated attack rule your life. The odds are
really on your side.
Nuclear Weapons Nuclear bombs.
These are the only weapons of mass destruction on earth. The
effects of a nuclear bomb are heat, blast, EMP, and radiation. If you
see a bright flash of light like the sun, where the sun isn't, fall
to the ground! The heat will be over a second. Then there will be two
blast waves, one out going, and one on it's way back. Don't stand up
to see what happened after the first wave; anything that's going to
happen will have happened in two full minutes. These will be low
yield devices and will not level whole cities. If you live through
the heat, blast, and initial burst of radiation, you'll probably live
for a very, very long time. Radiation will not create fifty foot tall
women, or giant ants and grass hoppers the size of tanks.
These will be at the most 1 kiloton bombs; that's the equivalent of
1,000 tons of TNT. Here's the real deal, flying debris and radiation
will kill a lot of exposed (not all!) people within a half mile of
the blast. Under perfect conditions this is about a half mile circle
of death and destruction, but, when it's done it's done.
EMP:
EMP stands for Electro Magnetic Pulse and it will fry every
electronic device for a good distance, it's impossible to say what
and how far but probably not over a couple of miles from ground zero
is a good guess. Cars, cell phones, computers, ATMs, you name it, all
will be out of order.
Radiation:
There are lots of kinds of radiation, you only need to worry
about
three, the others you have lived with for years. You need to worry
about : Ionizing,
"Ionizing radiation,"
these are little sub atomic particles that go whizzing along at
the speed of light. They hit individual cells in your body, kill the
nucleus and keep on going. That's how you get radiation poisoning,
you have so many dead cells in your body that the decaying cells
poison you. It's the same as people getting radiation treatments for
cancer, only a bigger area gets radiated.
The good news is you don't have to just sit there and take it,
and
there's lots you can do rather than panic.
First;
Alpha Particles....your skin will stop alpha particles,
Second;
Beta Particles... a page of a news paper or your clothing will
stop beta particles, you just got to try and avoid inhaling dust
that's contaminated with atoms that are emitting these things and
you'll be generally safe from them.
Third;
Gamma rays�. are particles that travel like rays (quantum
physics makes my brain hurt) and they create the same damage as alpha
and beta particles only they keep going and kill lots of cells as
they go all the way through your body. It takes a lot to stop these
things, lots of dense material, on the other hand it takes a lot of
this to kill you. Your defense is as always to not panic. Basic
hygiene and normal preparation are your friends.
All canned or frozen food is safe to eat. The radiation poisoning
will not effect plants so fruits and vegetables are OK if there's no
dust on them (rinse them off if there is). If you don't have running
water and you need to collect rain water or use water from wherever,
just let it sit for thirty minutes and skim off the water gently from
the top. The dust with the bad stuff in it will settle and the
remaining water can be used for the toilet which will still work if
you have a bucket of water to pour in the tank.
Biological Weapons:
Finally there's biological warfare.... There's not much to cover
here. Basic personal hygiene and sanitation will take you further
than a million doctors. Wash your hands often, don't share drinks,
food, sloppy kisses, etc., . with strangers. Keep your garbage can
with a tight lid on it, don't have standing water (like old buckets,
ditches, or kiddy pools) laying around to allow mosquitoes breeding
room.
This stuff is carried by vectors, that is bugs, rodents, and
contaminated material. If biological warfare is so easy as the TV
makes it sound, why has Saddam Hussein spent twenty years, millions,
and millions of dollars trying to get it right? If you're clean of
person and home you eat well and are active you're going to live.
Overall preparation for any terrorist attack is the same as you'd
take for a big storm. If you want a gas mask, fine, go get one. I
know this stuff and I'm not getting one and I told my Mom not to
bother with one either (how's that for confidence). We have :
1) a week's worth of cash,
2) several days worth of canned goods
3) and plenty of soap and water.
We don't leave stuff out to attract bugs or rodents so we don't
have them. These people can't conceive a nation this big with this
much
resources. These weapons are made to cause panic, terror, and to
demoralize.
If we don't run around like sheep they won't use this stuff after
they find out it's no fun. The government is going nuts over this
stuff because they have to protect every inch of America. You've only
got to protect yourself, and by doing that, you help the country.
Finally, there are millions of caveats to everything I wrote here
and you can think up specific scenarios where my advice isn't the
best. This letter is supposed to help the greatest number of people
under the greatest number of situations. If you don't like my work,
don't nit pick, just sit down and explain chemical, nuclear, and
biological warfare in a document around three pages long yourself.
This is how we the people of the United States can rob these people
of their most desired goal, your terror.
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