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THIS is worth
the read!!!!!!!!! Ginny
Hey,
everyone, forward this to everyone you
love. The article is from a retired
military weapons, munitions and training
expert. The "Real" Deal about
Nuclear, Bio, and Chem Attacks Red Thomas
(Ret) 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 1990's 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
Kayro 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 herd 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. It'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 frozen 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 kiddie 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
so 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 a 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
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