To: thoughtomator
They'd be fools... they'd waste all their expensive gas, it would be incinerated. No.
According to Loftus
this is another reason why it looks like nerve gas.
Nerve gas can withstand high temperatures.
High explosives reacha temperature of 3500 degrees.
Nerve gas does not incinerate until temperatures above 4000.
The explosion would create a large cloud.
There were 3 trucks of high explosives
one of nerve gas.
70 posted on
04/19/2004 8:37:37 PM PDT by
Allan
To: Allan
"In July the BBC ran an episode of their series "Spooks" on the subject of an exercise to deal with a VX Nerve gas attack on London and Edinburgh. In this simulation, terrorists explode a transit van containing drums of VX agent in the centre of London, and the program examined the subsequent actions of a team at MI5 in response to the incident. Although the program is intended as entertainment, it did raise some valid points about preparations to deal with these threats. In one scene the protective gear issued was found to be the wrong type, and as it offered no real protection against VX, it was decided to not wear the masks & suits at all. At one point, a shelter was described as being unusable, because "...they hadn't finished building it yet..". Interesting in light of the reported findings in Jordan.
First Tom Clancy and now an episode of "Spooks" on the BBC emulated by whackjobs.
Hopefully the CIA has somebody reading the doomsday fiction.
83 posted on
04/19/2004 8:52:52 PM PDT by
jwalsh07
(REMEMBER FABRIZIO!)
To: Allan
Nerve gas can withstand high temperatures. High explosives reacha temperature of 3500 degrees. Nerve gas does not incinerate until temperatures above 4000.I don't think that is accurate. VX is a phospho-organic and as such, the carbon-carbon bonds would dissociate far below 4,000 F, more likely around 700 - 900 F. Of course, in a detonation type explosion, the casing may stay intact long enough for adiabatic cooling to preserve the chemical.
BTW: "nerve gas" isn't really a gas at all. If you could rub it between your fingers without dying immediately (which you can't), you would observe that it is an oily, viscous liquid at about the same consistency as baby oil. The key to its effective use militarily is to disperse it in micro-droplets so that it can both contact a human as a droplet and to provide such a large surface area that it volatalizes into a vapor.
To: Allan
How do we know it was to hit Jordan. Wouldn't Israel be better for Al Queda to hit. Seem they would have spared just a little to share with their Zionist enemies.
Just wondering - feedback pls.
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