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Kinda puts 3 to 4 liters of sarin in perspective, huh?
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"Lethal dose of Sarin: 0.5 milligrams.
Density: 1.089 g/cm3
Grams per liter: 1,089g
Lethal doses per liter: 2,178,000
Lethal doses of sarin contained in this shell: 6,534,000 to 8,712,000"
Just damn...
A reminder, to all the elites (who wouldn't be on FR anyway, except to troll)...
The "mass" in WMD does NOT refer to the number of weapons...it's not "weapons of mass weapons".
It stands for masses of people. Masses of living things. And somehow I don't think that you'd want to eat anything that this stuff touches.
8 million people dead sounds like a hell of a lot of MASS to me...
Also, would it make sense that we don't have to wait for those people to die before those weapons "massively destroy" them??? Oh yeah...doctrine of preemption, bad.
Your math is a little off. Your lethal dose is for perfect conditions. Out in the real world the LCt50 (dose required to be lethal for 50% of those exposed) for vaporized Sarin gas is 100mg per m3 (remember it is normally a liquid). The better way to look at is that the amount of Sarin in that artillery shell (assuming prefect dispersal) would kill 50% of all oxygen-breathing organisms (can't forget about the little kitties,too)in a .4 square kilometer area. In an urban setting this would translate into massive causalities. Those not killed would be in severe distress. The ICt50 (dose required to incapacitate 50% of those exposed) is 75mg per m3, and The MCt50 (dose required to produce breath problems) is 3mg per m3.
The 'saving grace' of Sarin is that because of its density it hugs the ground, the LCt 50 for skin exposure is 1.7 g per m3, and it quickly dissipates. That is why chem shells are exploded above ground and it used in barrages rather than as individual shots.
Will these figures be rebroadcast over the spew-waves on in the de-press? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Where is my TV Guide, Blanch? I need to watch Dan Rather for my daily dose of news.
Such slime.
"Lethal doses of sarin contained in this shell: 6,534,000 to 8,712,000"
So, in a very general sense, if the dispersal was only 1% efficient, this could kill, oh,
65000 PEOPLE!!??
The left needs to have a nice big steaming cup of STFU, and let our forces scour Iraq for this stuff.
Now that puts things into perspective.....
The two soldiers are lucky to be alive.
Lethal dose of Sarin: 0.5 milligrams.
Density: 1.089 g/cm3
Grams per liter: 1,089g
Lethal doses per liter: 2,178,000
Lethal doses of sarin contained in this shell: 6,534,000 to 8,712,000
Hey, JG...STILL wanna claim that Sarin isn't a WMD?!?!
Enough lethal doses, in this one warhead, to whipe out 6.5 Million people.
The precise "laboratory" answer to your question is in this post.
The "proper military use" answer is probably more on the order of five potential thousand deaths, if it were set off in an enclosed environment after proper firing.