Military Agents

Curly Top Virus of Sugar Beets Cyanogen Chloride Dengue Fever Dibenz-(b,f)-l,4-oxazepine Diphenylchloroarsine Diphenylcy anoarsine Diphosgene Diphtheria 

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Optimal toxic substances are military agents both registered for combat use and unregistered but readily available in production (phosgene, prussic acid). Places and methods of toxic agents use are deliberately chosen anyway, public places with intensive ventilation are preferable (subways, railway stations, supermarkets, sports centers, discotheques). 

Industrial Agents Chemicals manufactured for industrial purposes rather than to specifically kill or maim human beings. Hydrogen cyanide, cyanogen chloride, phosgene, and chloropicrin are industrial chemicals that can be military agents as well AC, CK, CG, and PS. Many herbicides and pesticides are industrial chemicals that also can be chemical agents. 

On high toxicity sites even with a very small amount of material escaping from the site, may have extreme consequences. Military Agents are high toxicity compounds which are designed to be lethal in very very small quantities. They are also extremely stable and hard to destroy. A number of industrial chemicals, particularly pesticides also fall into this category. Chlorinated solvents, PCB s and some pesticides, herbicides, and biocides fall into this category. 

In a situation where military agents have been applied, there may be an equal likelihood that the military has also applied their own decontaminant materials. These do not necessarily render the agent neutral or environmentally safe, but merely less toxic. Indiscriminate use of the decontamination agents can be as enviromnentally damaging at the use of the agent. 

Little information is available on the treatment of humans exposed to military agents. However, pralldoxlme is an FDA-approved marketed drug in the U.S. and there is substantial experience with therrapeutic use on civilians exposed to agricultural organophos-phorus products. 

If chemical is a military agent and army has not been informed, call them. 

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This is a x ery impressix o showing for any military agent, and is even more m> for one which was hastily devehiped under. lrpss of war and did not emerge from an experimental stage until the war va.< nearly half over. 

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There are four major groups of organizations that are required to perform eye irritation studies. These are the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and toiletries, consumer product, and industrial chemical groups. There are also minor categories of use (which we will not consider here) such as for military agents. 

Nitrogen Vesicants may be liquids or solids. Solid agents are not currently employed by the military. Agents may be colorless to yellow oily liquids. Nitrogen vesicants may be odorless, may have a fishy or musty odor in low concentrations or a fruity odor at higher concentrations. 

Is a colorimetric-tube system designed specifically to detect and identify military agents. To complete the series of tests requires approximately 24 minutes. It is about 20 times less sensitive than the M256 kit and is no longer employed by the U.S. military. 

Markings include the agent name or military agent symbol and may include the general descriptive word "GAS."... 

One band on munitions manufactured prior to 1976 indicates a munition with a nonpersistent riot control agent filling. Markings include the military agent symbol and the general descriptive word "GAS" (manufactured prior to 1960) or "RIOT" (manufactured between 1960 and 1976). 

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