For younger children, a protective jacket can be used instead of a protective mask. Such a jacket protects the respiratory organs and also gives some protection against sarin agents in liquid form. A battery powered fan forces air through a filter and the purified air flows in front of the child's face. Children younger than about 12 months can be given a protective "carry-cot". Slightly older children, but still too small to accept a protective jacket or a protective mask should be given some kind of collective protection. Collective protection for civilians can be made available in shelters with filters which absorb the nerve agents.

The first real use of nerve agents was during World war one on April 22, 1915. During the battle of Ypres, the Germans utilised nerve agents for the first time ever for war purposes. They unleashed a deadly new gas called “chlorine gas” (CL2) on the British and French in a trail run. It was estimated that this new blistering agent cost over 5000 lives. In retaliation to this attack the allies experimented with their own chemical and biological weapons. They came up with a new more lethal form of chlorine gas, “Mustard Gas”. Mustard gas consists mainly of chlorine in a gaseous form, when contact is made with a victim’s body or it is inhaled, it returns back to into its liquid form, “Hydrochloric acid”. The result is an extremely bad blistering and reddening of the skin and if inhaled will do the same damage to the lungs, internal and external bleeding were results of this. Because Mustard gas dissolves easily in water, moist parts of the body are the worst affected. The eyes are particularly susceptible, and the gas burns the corneas of the eyes leaving the victim blind. It usually took around 5 to 6 weeks to die, during which time the pain was excruciating. The sufferer would often have to be strapped to the bed, and complain in tiny whispers that their throats were melting inwards and they knew they would die. As you can evidently see hydrochloric acid (Hcl) can clearly be derived from this. During world war one it is believed that poison gas was responsible for over 900,000 injuries and 100,000 deaths. During the period in between world war one and two Sarin gas had been invented but its chemical formula had yet to be released to the world. The use of chemical and biological weapons during world war one clearly unnerved the scientific world. The Geneva protocol was set up to prohibit the use of any such weapons again; it did not however ban the production of such weapons. Countries began to produce many different varieties of chemical gases, especially during world war two. At this time Dr. Gerhard Schrader was working on Sarin gas with three other pioneer chemists in “IG Farben”. During the two years that followed Schrader’s discovery Tabun, they managed to create an even deadlier, potent chemical nerve gas, “SARIN”. They name “SARIN” came from their names, using the first letter of each of their last names, Schrader, Ambros, Rudriger, and van der linde. There are however many other names for this nerve agent:

The best way to handle chemical protection is to discourage an aggressor from using nerve agents in the first place. In military terms this implies taking measures so that an aggressor cannot attain major military advantages. As with nuclear weapons stockpiling is often the best defence .In modern warfare the idea is to bomb the factories and missile sites to prevent the enemy from being able to fire any chemical weapons in the first place. In modern times there are missiles capable of destroying missiles in mid flight, such as the patriot missiles used in the Gulf war although these will never be one hundred percent efficient they can be the best option. Depending on the purpose of different protective measures, they are divided into two categories accord

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