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Hi there,
This takes about 5 minutes to read.
It is well worth the time and errort.
This guy knows what he is talking about,
yet I never heard the truth from the press
The truth about weapons of mass destruction
Words of Wisdom From An Armor Master
Since the media has decided to scare everyone
with predictions of chemical, biological, or
nuclear warfare on our turf I decided to write
a paper and keep things in their proper
perspective. I am a retired military weapons,
munitions, and training expert.
Lesson number one: In the mid 1990s there were
a series of nerve gas attacks on crowded
Japanese subway stations. Given perfect
conditions for an attack less than 10% of the
people there were injured (the injured were
better in a few hours) and only one percent of
the injured died. 60 Minutes once had a fellow
telling us that one drop of nerve gas could
kill a thousand people, well he didn't tell you
the thousand dead people per drop was
theoretical. Drill Sergeants exaggerate how
terrible this stuff was to keep the recruits
awake in class (I know this because I was a
Drill Sergeant too). Forget everything you've
ever seen on TV, in the movies, or read in a
novel about this stuff, it was all a lie (read
this sentence again out loud!). These weapons
are about terror, if you remain calm, you will
probably not die.
This is far less scary than the media and their
"Experts," make it sound. Chemical weapons are
categorized as Nerve, Blood, Blister, and
Incapacitating agents Contrary to the hype of
reporters and politicians they are not weapons
of mass destruction they are "Area denial," and
terror weapons that don't destroy anything.
When you leave the area you almost always leave
the risk. That's the difference; you can leave
the area and the risk; soldiers may have to
stay put and sit through it and that's why they
need all that spiffy gear.
These are not gasses, they are vapors and/or
air borne particles. The agent must be
delivered in sufficient quantity to
kill/injure, and that defines when/how it's
used. Every day we have a morning and evening
inversion where "stuff," suspended in the air
gets pushed down. This inversion is why
allergies (pollen) and air pollution are worst
at these times of the day. So, a chemical
attack will have it's best effect an hour of so
either side of sunrise/sunset. Also, being
vapors and airborne particles they are heavier
than air so they will seek low places like
ditches, basements and underground garages.
This stuff won't work when it's freezing, it
doesn't last when it's hot, and wind spreads it
too thin too fast. They've got to get this
stuff on you, or, get you to inhale it for it
to work. They also have to get the
concentration of chemicals high enough to kill
or wound you. Too little and it's nothing, too
much and it's wasted. What I hope you've
gathered by this point is that a chemical
weapons attack that kills a lot of people is
incredibly hard to do with military grade
agents and equipment so you can imagine how
hard it will be for terrorists. The more you
know about this stuff the more you realize how
hard it is to use.
We'll start by talking about nerve agents. You
have these in your house, plain old bug killer
(like Raid)is nerve agent. All nerve agents work
the same way;they are cholinesterase inhibitors
that mess up the signals your nervous system uses
to make your body function.
It can harm you if you get it on your skin but
it works best if they can get you to inhale it.
If you don't die in the first minute and you
can leave the area you're probably gonna live.
The military's antidote for all nerve agents is
atropine and pralidoxime chloride. Neither one
of these does anything to cure the nerve agent,
they send your body into overdrive to keep you
alive for five minutes, after that the agent is
used up. Your best protection is fresh air and
staying calm. Listed below are the symptoms for
nerve agent poisoning.
Sudden headache, Dimness of vision (someone
you're looking at will have pinpointed pupils),
Runny nose, Excessive saliva or drooling,
Difficulty breathing, Tightness in chest,
Nausea, Stomach cramps, Twitching of exposed
skin where a liquid just got on you.
If you are in public and you start experiencing
these symptoms, first ask yourself, did
anything out of the ordinary just happen, a
loud pop, did someone spray something on the
crowd? Are other people getting sick too? Is
there an odor of new mown hay, green corn,
something fruity, or camphor where it shouldn't
be? If the answer is yes, then calmly (if you
panic you breathe faster and inhale more
air/poison) leave the area and head up wind,
or, outside. Fresh air is the best "Right now
antidote." If you have a blob of liquid that
looks like molasses or Karo syrup on you; blot
it or scrape it off and away from yourself with
anything disposable. This stuff works based on
your body weight, what a crop duster uses to
kill bugs won't hurt you unless you stand there
and breathe it in real deep, then lick the
residue off the ground for while. Remember
they have to do all the work, they have to get
the concentration up and keep it up for several
minutes while all you have to do is quit
getting it on you/quit breathing it by putting
space between you and the attack. Blood agents
are cyanide or arsine which effect your blood's
ability to provide oxygen to your tissue. The
scenario for attack would be the same as nerve
agent. Look for a pop or someone
splashing/spraying something and folks around
there getting woozy/falling down. The telltale
smells are bitter almonds or garlic where it
shouldn't be. The symptoms are blue lips, blue
under the fingernails rapid breathing. The
military's antidote is amyl nitride and just
like nerve agent antidote it just keeps your
body working for five minutes till the toxins
are used up. Fresh air is the your best
individual chance Blister agents (distilled
mustard) are so nasty that nobody wants to even
handle it let alone use it. It's almost
impossible to handle safely and may have
delayed effect of up to 12 hours. The attack
scenario is also limited to the things you'd
see from other chemicals. If you do get large,
painful blisters for no apparent reason, don't
pop them, if you must, don't let the liquid
from the blister get on any other area, the
stuff just keeps on spreading. It's just as
likely to harm the user as the target. Soap,
water, sunshine, and fresh air are this stuff's
enemy. Bottom line on chemical weapons (it's
the same if they use industrial chemical
spills); they are intended to make you panic,
to terrorize you, to heard you like sheep to
the wolves. If there is an attack, leave the
area and go upwind, or to the sides of the wind
stream. They have to get the stuff to you, and
on you. You're more likely to be hurt by a
drunk driver on any given day than be hurt by
one of these attacks. Your odds get better if
you leave the area. Soap, water, time, and
fresh air really deal this stuff a
knock-out-punch. Don't let fear of an isolated
attack rule your life. The odds are really on
your side.
Nuclear bombs. These are the only weapons of
mass destruction on earth. The effects of a
nuclear bomb are heat, blast, EMP, and
radiation. If you see a bright flash of light
like the sun, where the sun isn't, fall to the
ground! The heat will be over a second. Then
there will be two blast waves, one out going,
and one on it's way back. Don't stand up to
see what happened after the first wave;
anything that's going to happen will have
happened in two full minutes. These will be
low yield devices and will not level whole
cities. If you live through the heat, blast
and initial burst of radiation, you'll probably
live for a very very long time. Radiation will
not create fifty-foot tall women, or giant ants
and grass hoppers the size of tanks. These
will be at the most 1 kiloton bombs; that's the
equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT. Here's the
real deal, flying debris and radiation will
kill a lot of exposed (not all)! people within
a half mile of the blast. Under perfect
conditions this is about a half-mile circle of
death and destruction, but, when it's done it's
done. EMP stands for Electro Magnetic Pulse
and it will fry every electronic device for a
good distance, it's impossible to say what and
how far but probably not over a couple of miles
from ground zero is a good guess. Cars, cell
phones, computers, ATMs, you name it, all will
be out of order. There are lots of kinds of
radiation, you only need to worry about three,
the others you have lived with for years. You
need to worry about "Ionizing radiation," these
are little sub atomic particles that go
whizzing along at the speed of light. They hit
individual cells in your body, kill the nucleus
and keep on going.
That's how you get radiation poisoning, you
have so many dead cells in your body that the
decaying cells poison you. I t's the same as
people getting radiation treatments for cancer,
only a bigger area gets radiated. The good
news is you don't have to just sit there and
take it, and there's lots you can do rather
than panic. First; your skin will stop alpha
particles, a page of a news paper or your
clothing will stop beta particles, you just
gotta try and avoid inhaling dust that's
contaminated with atoms that are emitting these
things and you'll be generally safe from them.
Gamma rays are particles that travel like rays
(quantum physics makes my brain hurt) and they
create the same damage as alpha and beta
particles only they keep going and kill lots of
cells as they go all the way through your body.
It takes a lot to stop these things, lots of
dense material, on the other hand it takes a
lot of this to kill you. Your defense is as
always to not panic. Basic hygiene and normal
preparation are your friends. All canned or
fozen food is safe to eat. The radiation
poisoning will not effect plants so fruits and
vegetables are OK if there's no dust on em
(rinse em off if there is). If you don't have
running water and you need to collect rain
water or use water from wherever, just let it
sit for thirty minutes and skim off the water
gently from the top. The dust with the bad
stuff in it will settle and the remaining water
can be used for the toilet, which will still
work if you have a bucket of water to pour in
the tank. Finally there's biological warfare.
There's not much to cover here. Basic personal
hygiene and sanitation will take you further
than a million doctors. Wash your hands often,
don't share drinks, food, sloppy kisses, etc.,
with strangers. Keep your garbage can with a
tight lid on it, don't have standing water
(like old buckets, ditches, or kiddy pools)
laying around to allow mosquitoes breeding
room. This stuff is carried by vectors, that
is bugs, rodents, and contaminated material. If
biological warfare is as easy as the TV makes
it sound, why has Saddam Hussein spent twenty
years, millions, and millions of dollars trying
to get it right? If you're clean of person and
home you eat well and are active you're gonna
live.
Overall preparation for any terrorist attack is
the same as you'd take for a big storm. If you
want a gas mask, fine, go get one. I know this
stuff and I'm not getting one and I told my Mom
not to bother with one either (how's that for
confidence). We have a week's worth of cash,
several days worth of canned goods and plenty
of soap and water. We don't leave stuff out to
attract bugs or rodents so we don't have them.
These people can't conceive ofa nation this big
with this much resources.
These weapons are made to cause panic, terror,
and to demoralize. If we don't run around like
sheep they won't use this stuff after they find
out it's no fun. The government is going nuts
over this stuff because they have to protect
every inch of America. You've only gotta
protect yourself, and by doing that, you help
the country. Finally, there are millions of
caveats to everything I wrote here and you can
think up specific scenarios where my advice
isn't the best.
This letter is supposed to help the greatest
number of people under the greatest number of
situations. If you don't like my
work, don't nit pick, just sit down and explain
chemical, nuclear, and biological warfare in a
document around three pages long yourself.
This is how we the people of the United States
can rob these people of their most desired
goal, your terror.
SFC Red Thomas (Ret)
Armor Master Gunner Mesa, AZ Reproduction and
distribution is authorized and encouraged.
Just give me credit for my work
See you in the ether,
Loving Life,
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Denny77 # 20. October 2007, 13:07
pfelelep # 26. October 2007, 04:10
kinda scary
but interesting, indeed.