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To: Jet Jaguar
More information on this story, for which I thank you. As I posted in another thread, if ISIS really wanted these sorts of weapons they just stole plenty of money to build them for themselves, which is much easier than attempting to scrounge them from a decade-old toxic waste dump.

The exception is VX. If that's involved all bets are off, but there is nothing in the news stories to suggest that it is. Perhaps no news is good news.

The irony is that after almost exactly a century of familiarity with these weapons, we've discovered their limitations - a force prepared with countermeasures is relatively safe - and their most effective use. That is as a weapon against an unprepared, i.e. civilian, population. That's what they're good for. They're terror weapons, they always were.

20 posted on 07/08/2014 11:12:36 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill
More information on this story, for which I thank you. As I posted in another thread, if ISIS really wanted these sorts of weapons they just stole plenty of money to build them for themselves, which is much easier than attempting to scrounge them from a decade-old toxic waste dump.

These are all cholinesterase inhibitors which is basically bug spray. Those used as weapons of war are uniquely designed to be lethal to mammals.

The point I am trying to make is if you have a factory that can make bug spray you have a factory that can make chemical agents that are particularly lethal to humans.

22 posted on 07/08/2014 11:49:50 PM PDT by cpdiii (deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist. The constitution is worth dying for!)
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To: Billthedrill

VX is a short range weapon, though, a local weapon
you cannot disperse it to kill all the people it could kill, it will dissipate

still, kill all who get it but, short range, short effective dispersement

the value of these is a a residue bomb, tied to an explosive, to kill those who arent killed by shrapnel or first responders who come aftter the large first blast

like a nuclear dirty bomb

still effective, but unable to be dispersed as designed

only 50 yard radius instead of 200 yards wide

like that matters to the people it hits...


35 posted on 07/09/2014 12:00:36 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Lk 16:31 And he said unto him If they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will theybe persuaded)
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