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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ennews!anasaz!briand
- From: briand@anasazi.com (Brian Douglass)
- Subject: Re: Iraq may use Bio Weapons againt Isreal!!!???
- Organization: Anasazi Inc Phx Az USA
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:45:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.224533.6101@anasazi.com>
- References: <1993Jan15.055249.22490@cas.org> <1993Jan16.010523.1380@anasazi.com> <63473@mimsy.umd.edu>
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- In article <63473@mimsy.umd.edu> biow@cs.umd.edu (Christopher Biow) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan16.010523.1380@anasazi.com> briand@anasazi.com (Brian Douglass) writes:
- >
- >>As recently reported on Nova, Iraq chemical and biological weapons had very
- >>poor shelf life. It was nearly impossible for him to stock-pile his
- >>weapons.
- >
- >Didn't see the report. If it were accurate, it would be
- >a first for Nova programs on the military. In fact, it's not
- >accurate. Among other chemicals, the Iraqis are reported to have
- >used mustard "gas" in their conflict with Iran. Although mustard
- >evaporates (slowly), it is effectively immortal in terms of
- >chemical stabilty. Underwater, for example, it lasts for decades.
- >North Sea fishermen are occasionally burned by mustard that they
- >dredge up for the sea bottom. That mustard comes from leaking
- >World War One (!) chemical munitions.
- >
- >While not the most lethal of chemical munitions, mustard is one
- >of the best for slowing down attackers by contaminating equipment,
- >protective suits, streambeds, and swamps.
-
- All of this is true IF the munitions are free from impurities that
- destabilize them. In the Nova report it was stated that Iraqi
- manufacture processes put so many impurities into their Chemical munition
- as render them with an almost 0 shelf life. Hence the need to quickly move
- them from manufacture to battlefield.
-
- Their source was the UN Inspectors, the subject of the report.
-
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- "The best government of all is that government which governs the least."
- Jefferson
- Brian Douglass briand@anasazi.com 602-870-3330 X657
-