... contact, when it is in its liquid form. "When it is in its gaseous form it capable of making a distance miles and still be deadly enough to kill."(Unknown chemical origins) In order to prevent being harmed by any of these things you need to get some form of protection for ... "United States is the most high tech protection around."(Grolier Encyclopedia Unknown Author 1st edition 1994.") 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 ....

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... tasteless which makes it to hard for a person to know what is going on until it is to late. Some chemical agents are not to deadly like tear gas which only causes a person to start coughing, crying and unable to breathe until they catch a fresh breeze. This gas has been ... of biological warfare for thousands of years. In medival times, corpses were catapulted into an enemy's fortress. The body would be infected with a deadly disease that would spread within the enclosed walls of the castle. This tactic was used by the romans. Disease infected bodies were also put into ... streams near t...

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... 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 ... mines bombs and planes. Upon dispersion the wind, temperature, velocity and other such factors determine the true damage this gas can do. Compared to cyanide it is 20 times more deadly, and only 0.5 ml is required to kill a fully grown adu...

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... , nations came together to uniformly decide that the use of these weapons in war should be prohibited. Apparently killing people with flying metal and bullets was one thing, but releasing a deadly cloud of chemical gases was another. In this paper I will explain the composition and affects of some of the most severe chemical agents used in chemical weapons including Sarin Gas ... that is composed of carbon, hydrogen, fluorine, oxygen, and phosphorus. It is also known as GB. It has a lethal dose of 0.5 milligram for a human adult. It is 26 times more deadly than cyanide gas and is 20 time...

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... cases death in large proportions of a population. This would have devastating effects on mankind. Some main concerns of biological weapons are that of anthrax, botulinal toxin, and mycotoxins. Anthrax is a deadly killer, which has a spore form that is extremely resistant and infectious. Anthrax is an efficient killer; it's victims being made to suffer the agony of having a sudden onset of difficulty ... in breathing, profuse sweating, shock, and death within 36 hours. Botulinal toxins are produced by a microscopic organism and are a deadly poison even if taken in small doses that can be...

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... the long, slow, first paragraph, "an ecstasy of fumbling", tells us that the men are panicking as they try and put on their gas masks quick enough to escape the deadly gas. "But someone was still yelling out and stumbling." All the soldiers except for one had managed to get their masks on in time. The one that didn't make it ... was panicking. "And floundering like a man in fire or lime." This simile tells us that, after breathing in the deadly mustard gas, the soldiers" lungs are burning as they would if the same had happened with fire or lime. When the poet wrote, "dim, through misty ...

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... and rifles caused the second most damage as shown in Source A (ii) (33.93%), Rifles were initially used in 1914, and most had a range of 500 meters, and they were deadly in the hands of trained troops. The machine gun was an excellent defensive weapon, with its range between 500 and 1000m it could wipe out hundreds of advancing troops. The ... back onto the attacking side. There were several types of gas including chlorine, phosgene and mustard gas. Mustard gas could burn the skin and caused sever breathing problems. Gasses were a deadly weapon that could burn, blind and suffocate. Grad...

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... Germany, where Himmler managed, with Hitler's approval, to fuse the SS and the police, thereby realizing one of the conditions for the extermination of the Jews. Each side in this deadly rivalry attempted to appeal to the leader against their rivals, thereby enhancing Mussolini's and Hitler's popularity – already immense because of their perceived success in re-establishing their respective countries ... ...

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... of the First World War, popular opinion was that it would not last more than four months. It was also believed that the science of modern warfare would be so deadly that mankind would demand cessation of such barbarism. The failure to anticipate the severity of war, and to be unprepared for the unexpected, lead both sides of the war to ... ...

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... . The main questions were on the size of the room, the aeration system used to evacuate the gasses and the body disposal. Some even produced mobile installations to deliver these deadly fumes in special location. In a letter addressed to Berlin concerning these devices, it is clearly stated that 97 000 people were successfully killed using these "special vans". It is interesting ... ...

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... in hand to hand fighting. They could not afford to use their handguns while patrolling in No Man's Land, for fear of the machine gun fire it would inevitably attract, deadly to all members of the patrol. Trench warfare was a very perilous technique of armed conflict. Many men on the front line died "going over the top." Row upon row of ... ...

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... , they managed to have similar impacts on the citizens of America. World War I is referred to by many the first truly modern war. New weapons and techniques made for a very deadly and confusing conflict for those who fought. They had all new fears such as more advanced firearms, bombs, and the dreaded mustard gas. Louis Felix Ranlett describes this fear from ... ...

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... nothing to advance the Allied position. Hitler's army was allowed six months to reinforce and plan. The Allies continued to put themselves in a position of disadvantage. While the Europeans faced a deadly threat with Hitler, the South Pacific saw its own menace with Japan. Imperial Japan, which imported almost 100 percent of its oil and most of its natural resources, began a campaign ... ...

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... goals for Germany in the event of an untimely death. Hitler was not daydreaming, any of that would come when he casually mentioned global conquest. In this meeting he was deadly serious and argued for the vital necessity of continental expansion. According to Hitler "the aim of German policy was to make secure and preserve the racial community and to enlarge ... ...

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... of war, only sought to appease the Austrian monarchy long enough to mount their own offensive. Whatever the case may be no such offensive was launched. In retrospect, while the deadly actions of a few Serbians may have in effect lit the fuse, it was other nations who a! ssumed the posture of war on behalf of Serbia while the Serbian government sought ... ...

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... of 214 miles worth. Life wasn't easy for the American solder during World War 1. The average soldier on the front line had to deal with lack of food and water, deadly gases, and the constant annoyance of lice and rats. The soldiers started to refer to the lice as "cooties" and they had given up on ever ridding themselves of the ... ...

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... . The Serbian nation wanted sovereignty and this nationalistic movement created tensions between Serbia and the Austria-Hungary Empire. Alert that the Dual-Empire faced destruction, Austrian leaders saw Serbia as a deadly enemy that had to be "erased from the map." (Heyman, 5). Therefore nationalism set the grounds for the succession of climaxing issues that would lead to war. As nationalism caused restlessness ... ...

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... platoon had suffered heavy casualties and 3 other noncommissioned officers had become casualties, Cpl. York assumed command. Fearlessly leading 7 men, he charged with great daring a machine gun nest which was pouring deadly and incessant fire upon his platoon. In this heroic feat the machine gun nest was taken, together with 4 officers and 128 men and several guns. Upon returning home, Alvin married ... ...

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... , trench life was usually very dreary and hard physical work. The main enemy was boredom, and the loss of concentration - leaving oneself exposed to sniper fire, for example - could prove deadly. Whether a infantry man was in the line or out of it, unless he was a specialist such as a signaler he would inevitably be assigned to carrying, repair or digging parties, or ... ...

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... yelling for attention. The next line is: And flound"ring like a man in fire or lime This line sums up the groping, desperate movements of the man enveloped in this deadly gas. The word "floundering", for whatever reason written as a slight abbreviation in the style of many historic poets and authors i.e. using an apostrophe in place of the appropriate vowel, is ... ...

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... the end had come." (pg. 256). The difference between the novels is that whereas in Catch 22 the main character continues to be afraid and goes mad and tries a sure deadly task just to escape. In All Quiet on the Western Front the main character accepts the life of war and begins to feel at peace even in death. The two ... ...

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... this Verse. In the first line, I can see personification. Owen writes, "Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces". This line shows that the men feel that the 'deadly' snow is physically touching them and shows the dramatic affect that it is having on them. This line is personification because the snow is not literally 'fingering' them. In Verse ... ...

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... slowly dissolve, and the patient would drown in his own fluids. Many soldiers covered their mouths with a rag that had been soaked in urine in attempt to keep out the deadly fumes. "It seemed as if my lungs were gradually shutting up and my heart pounded away in my ears like the beast of a drum. On looking at the chap next ... ...

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... delayed from several hours to several days. Biological agents are Anthrax, Botulism, Plague, Small Pox, Tularemia and viruses such as Ebola and Mar burg. The first of these, Anthrax, is a deadly bacterial disease that normally afflicts grazing animals such as sheep and cows. It normally enters the body through skin wounds, inhalation or ingestion. Human cases rarely occurred until lately when ... ...

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... . The main questions were on the size of the room, the aeration system used to evacuate the gasses and the body disposal. Some even produced mobile installations to deliver these deadly fumes in special location. In a letter addressed to Berlin concerning these devices, it is clearly stated that 97 000 people were successfully killed using these "special vans". It is interesting ... ...

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