OT - mustard gas (was RE: SC - Re: kraut brands)

[Michael Newton]

I thought the holding, using or manufacture of Chemical weapons was banned
after WW1. Wasn't one the Geneva conventions the source of this outlaw?  I
know it was one of the sanctions against Iraq, and one of contention still.
Strange how the US Armed Forces don't want these weapons in the hands of
Kooks but is willing to hold on to them themselves.

Thorbjorn

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From: "Decker, Terry D." <TerryD at Health.State.OK.US>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 2:14 PM
Subject: OT - mustard gas (was RE: SC - Re: kraut brands)


> The US has maintained stockpiles of mustard gas since WWI.  We have tons
of
> CBR weaponry sitting around in bunkers just waiting to leak all over the
> landscape.
>
> One of the common military practices was to bury containers of dangerous
> materials to keep them from getting into the atmosphere.  Records were
> either not kept or lost, so every so often somebody gets a nasty surprise
> when they dig up and puncture a container that shouldn't be there.  About
8
> years ago, 50 some acres of Tinker AFB was declared a superfund site, when
> they uncovered toxic material buried in WWII.
>
> Just casually looking at the chemical formulas without a clear idea of the
> process, it looks like mustard gas is a cocktail of diphosgene and
sulfuric
> acid.
>
> Bear
>
> > margali wrote:
> > >
> > > No, the source for mustard gas in WW 1 was not generally
> > horseradish. It
> > > was phosgene. I know. I have been gassed 2ce doing cylinder
> > disposal at
> > > Fort Drum, NY. When the war was over, they buried cylinders
> > of phosgene
> > > in areas around the fort. Idiots! Pneumolavage is not a fun
> > and comfy
> > > procedure, nor is spending months in hospitals regrowing
> > lung tissue.
> > > margali
> >
> > They disposed of German mustard gas in Fort Drum, NY?
> >
> > Adamantius
>
>
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