Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: Otto.Makela@jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: BZ (psychemicals) Message-ID: <1991Jan17.053412.28932@cbnews.att.com> Date: 17 Jan 91 05:34:12 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: Turing Police, Criminal AI section Lines: 16 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Otto.Makela@jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) In a Finnish newspaper article there was discussion of psychemical weapons, ie. hallucinogenics and similars. I remember reading a Readers Digestive :-) article from the 60s on this stuff, which was rather sketchy and had some pretty wild claims. I'd like to know a bit more about these chemicals (in the newspaper article this class was called BZ - where do these names come from ?) in general and specifically re the Persian Gulf situation; what would be a good generally-available reference work and/or can someone post a nutshell summary of what the current situation is ? -- /* * * Otto J. Makela * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (CCITT, Bell 24/12/300) */ /* Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE */ /* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */