Royal Military Academy

Gravimetry measurements were kindly performed by P. Lodewyckx (Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium). Approximately 50 g of the carbons were placed in contact with air of known RH at 20.0 1.5 C. Exposure times were approximately 1 week per RH point. 

Royal Military Academy - Department of Chemistry, Renaissancelaan 30, B-1000 Brussel, Belgium. E-mail Peter.Lodewyckx rma.ac.be... 

Herbert De Bischopp, Professor, Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium and... 

Meetings with Ralf Trapp, Jeff Osborne, and Jerzy Mazur, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague, The Netherlands, January 18, 2006, and Herbert DeBischopp and Michel Lefebvre, Belgian Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium, January 19, 2006. 

Objective Meet with representatives of the Belgian Royal Military Academy to obtain information on Belgian chemical munitions demilitarization work. 

Individuals met with Herbert DeBischopp and Michel Lefebvre, Belgian Royal Military Academy. 

Herbert C. De Bisschop, personal communication to G.W. Parshall in an interview at the Belgian Royal Military Academy, July 25, 2001. 

Nils Gabriel Sefstrom (Ilsbo, North Helsingland, 2 June 1787-Stockholm, 30 November 1845), M.D. Uppsala 1813, at first a hospital physician (1813-1817), was from 1812 lecturer in chemistry in the Royal Military Academy at Carlberg and to 1820 assistant in chemistry at the Caroline Institute of Medicine and Surgery, teacher of chemistry at the new School of Mines in Fahlun (1820-39) and (from 1818) professor in the Artillery School in Marie-berg. He published a description of a powerful laboratory blast-furnace, in which he prepared silicon sulphide as a sublimate by heating silica in a carbon crucible in a current of hydrogen sulphide, and other papers. ... 

Nils Gabriel presented his doctor s thesis in 1813 and worked for some years as an assistant physician at the Hospital of the Royal Order of the Seraphim. Parallel with this service he was also teacher of chemistry and natural history at the Royal Military Academy. 

Most Western assessments appear to accept that the role of the VKhV is defensive and technical. Professor John Erickson - no sceptic on the subject of the Soviet CBW capability - states, The chemical warfare troops do not themselves wage chemical warfare that is, they are not responsible for the delivery of chemical munitions .Charles Dick, of the Soviet Studies section at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, describes their role as reconnaissance, monitoring radioactive contamination of personnel, decontamination of troops, equipment and terrain, and other special measures . (This covers smoke and incendiaries.) He stresses that their task runs wider than the basics of defence against chemical weapons Soviet chemical troops have the task of increasing the Soviet Army s ability to survive the effects of weapons of mass destruction of all kinds, nuclear, chemical or biological (bacteriological). " This is borne out by the remarks of General Manets referred to above. 

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