Utah base open after missing nerve agent vial located, officials say

CNN (Sorry) ^ | 1/27/2011 | CNN Wire Staff

[TSgt]

(CNN) -- A Utah military facility that tests chemical and biological weapons was opened Thursday after a nearly 12-hour lockdown that officials said was prompted by a missing vial of "nerve agent."

"On January 26, during a routine inventory of sensitive material in the chemical laboratory, Dugway officials discovered a discrepancy between the records and the agent on hand," said a statement issued by the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Ground. "As a precaution, the commander immediately locked down the installation and began efforts to identify the cause of the discrepancy."

[TSgt]

VX are nasty stuff...

[jiggyboy]

[cripplecreek]

I’m just glad that they’re able to notice the loss of less than a quarter teaspoon of the stuff. That’s some pretty tight accounting.

[TSgt]

A lethal dose is only 30 micrograms.

Deadliest weapon : VX nerve gas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkbBnvz0rw0

[Dan(9698)]

One drop can kill someone.

[Seruzawa]

Why am I reminded of Homer Simpson walking out of the plant with a glowing radioactive bar accidentally in his back pocket?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Any idiot with a third grade education and an Internet connection can figure out how to make a chemical warfare agent. It’s dispersal that’s difficult. Household bleach and ammonia (Windex) mixed is a highly dangerous and possibly deadly agent, for example.

[Crazieman]

One drop can kill probably 20 people

[TSgt]

Less than a drop.

The size of Lincoln’s eye on a penny is all it takes.

[The Comedian]

Round up all the Mohammads on base.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Dan(9698)]

I remember from CBR classes that it is very nasty.

[cripplecreek]

One drop can kill someone.

Yeah, good thing they can account for small amounts like that. Very likely just an accounting error.

[Hoffer Rand]

Not to underplay the severity of this, but usually this type of event is just a paperwork issue. Somebody is in the middle of an experiment, needs an extra vial and forgets to sign the log, documenting the removal, is just one example of how this could occur. Not saying how I know, but they have some pretty solid security measures at Dugway. And despite what you might read in the hyperventilating media, they also have some pretty high-end facilities.

[sodpoodle]

Fox reporter noted that this agent killed 6400 sheep back in 1968(?).

Complex is the size of Delaware!!!

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-sheep-incident

[Illuminatas]

Damn. I was hoping the zombie invasion was starting.

[tet68]

Fox reporter noted that this agent killed 6400 sheep back in 1968(?).

In “Skull Valley”.

[The Great RJ]

The military’s recent record for security is rather poor. About a year ago a nuclear weapon was “lost” from an AFB in North Dakota..it had been inadvertently attached to an aircraft. Recently an Army PFC accessed and copied darn near every secret government communication for a decade and gave them to Wiki-Leaks and now this. I almost expect to hear that the US nuclear launch codes were found posted in a truck stop men’s room.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

[tm61]

check the posts at the source, the libs are very embarrassed that we possess nerve agents. I dont know how they sleep at night.

[ldish]

maybe they also “lost” another one in Alabama recently...