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Subject: Re: Nerve Gas
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Date: 20 Sep 90 02:22:52 GMT
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From: att!utzoo!henry
|From: "" <sporay@adm.brl.mil>
|>I checked Ian Hogg's book "Gas" for the numbers.  7% of gas casualties
|>died; 12% had some degree of permanent disability.  These numbers aren't
|>quite as low as I misremembered them, but they are still well below the
|>corresponding ones for any other major weapon.
|
|Take into consideration that during WW1 chemical weapons were not used on
|every battlefield like <other major weapon>s, thats why the percentages 
|are lower...

Please read what I wrote!  Those are percentages of total *gas* casualties,
not percentages of total casualties.
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