Chemical Agents
The future of warfare has been changed by the history of chemical agents, and how they effect everyday life. The people I am going to tell you about didn’t get any warning at all they just were swallowed up by the governments lack of consciousness of what was happening in one of there very own chemical plants. “It all took place in a city called Bhopal India, On night of December 2, 1984.”(Unknown rand.org) The agent was known as “methylisocyanate”(Unknown Rand.org) (MIC) it is used for insecticides to spray on crops and other orchards where it is needed. To keep plants from being infected with pests. MIC was mass-produced in very large tanks where it was also stored in the same factory. “The tanks that they were storing them in were very large and old so they didn’t keep them up to date and they were hardly maintained.”(Unknown Rand.org) So because of error on their part this eventually led to a factory melt down that would revolutionize the way chemicals were being stored and handled. The cause of this accident is not quite certain. “All that could be gathered was that some water had gotten into the seals around the valves around and leading into the tanks.”(Unknown rand.org) Which caused t
The second most deadly nerve agent would be Sarin gas. In it’s liquid form it is most deadly and potent. It was used in prisons and Jewish extermination camps during world war two. They would take the prisoner, and tie him or her to a bed or a wall and insert the needle in either their leg, or a vein in their arm. Another way that they would kill them is by inserting them in to big gas chambers. Big groups of people at a time and close the doors, and release a substance called mustard gas in there. “They would suffer from symptoms of suffocation, Burning skin sensations, heart failure, and eventually death”. (Unknown pg.3 opcw.org/chemhaz) They would be dead in a matter of ten to fifteen seconds of when the mustard gas was released into the room. The next type of chemical I will discuss is Nerve gas. The chemical Make up of nerve gas is “CH3-P (=O)(-F)(-OCH (CH3) 2)”(Unknown Uky.edu Neurotox) “The boiling point of Nerve gas is 147* Celsius.” (Unknown Grolier Encyclopedia 1st ed. “94.”) “Two types of treatment are available if exposure to nerve gas happens you can be treated by Atropine and pralidoxime chloride which will neutralize the gas and put your body back to it’s original state before you were attacked by the gas.” (Unknown The world book CD-ROM) There were many nerve agents that were created during the time that world war one and world war two had taken place. “Some of these nerve agents include VX gas, Nerve gas, Sarin gas, Cyanide gas, Mustard gas, and chlorine gas, finally phosgene gas.”(Unknown Uky.edu~holler…) The most harmful out of all these listed here would be the VX gas. “(Unknown Grolier encyclopedia) It has the capabilities to eat the skin right off of the spot where it makes contact, when it is i
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