Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: nerve gas Message-ID: <1990Aug24.034239.1026@cbnews.att.com> Date: 24 Aug 90 03:42:39 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 22 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Jack Campin > However, nerve agents are regarded (by those familiar with their effects) > as very humane weapons. For a given degree of incapacitation, nerve > agents cause far fewer deaths than conventional weapons. Among the > wounded, a far greater number make a complete recovery. Not sure I believe this. A fair number of workers at Porton Down were accidentally exposed to nerve gases - many of them still have uncontrollable muscle spasms or visual problems years later. (They had an additional problem that under the Official Secrets Act they were not able to tell their own doctors that they had been exposed, so treatment could only be symptomatic). Where does the evidence of long-term innocuousness come from? Dugway? Nazi experiment victims? -- Jack Campin Computing Science Department, Glasgow University, 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland 041 339 8855 x6044 work 041 556 1878 home JANET: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk BANG!net: via mcsun and ukc FAX: 041 330 4913 INTERNET: via nsfnet-relay.ac.uk BITNET: via UKACRL UUCP: jack@glasgow.uucp