Decontamination of Chemical Warfare Agents

Decontamination of Chemical Warfare Agents

Decontamination of Chemical Warfare Agents

An introduction to methods and chemicals for decontamination

Introduction

Decontaminants

Decontamination methods

Personal decontamination

Decontamination of equipment

Introduction

In protection against chemical warfare agents the decontamination is an important unavoidable part. The aim of decontamination...

Convert an Air Rifle to a Single-Shot 22LR

by Bullwinkle8357

You might have seen in news photographs of African riots--often you can see someone brandishing what appears to be an air rifle. You eyes do not deceive you, it may very well be an air rifle--but it has very likely also been converted to allow firing single-shot 22LR shells, and is not loaded with a pellet!

There exists a method used in poorer African and Asian countries for many years, of converting a...

Construction Project: Atomic Bomb

Construction Project: Atomic Bomb

The following paper is taken from The journal of Irreproducible Results, Volume 25/Number 4/1979. P.O. Box 234 Chicago Heights, Illinois 60411 Subscription's 1 year for $3.70

1. INTRODUCTION

Worldwide controversy has been generated recently from several court decisions in the United States which have restricted popular magazines from printing articles which describe how to make...

Clouds of War: Chemical Weapons in the Former Yugoslavia

by Human Rights Watch

I. SUMMARY

Human Rights Watch has uncovered evidence that the Yugoslav National Army (JNA) had an extensive and sophisticated chemical weapons program prior to the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991; that the army of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) inherited much of this program; and that the army of the Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina produced crude chemical...

Chemical Weapons: Hydrogen Cyanide

Hydrogen Cyanide

Source: A FOA Briefing Book on Chemical Weapons

Hydrogen cyanide is usually included among the CW agents causing general poisoning. There is no confirmed information on this substance being used in chemical warfare. However, it has been reported that hydrogen cyanide was used by Iraq in the war against Iran and against the Kurds in northern Iraq during the 1980's. Hydrogen cyanide has high toxicity and in...

Chemical Agent Terrorism

by Frederick R. Sidell, M.D.

Chemical Agent Terrorism

Frederick R. Sidell, M.D.

INTRODUCTION

On March 20, 1995, terrorism changed. For the first time, terrorists used a chemical warfare agent against a civilian population. The nerve agent sarin (GB) was released in the Tokyo subway system causing over 5500 people to seek medical attention. Although terrorists had released sarin previously outside an apartment building...

Cheap Handgun Practice Ammunition

Cheap Handgun Practice Ammunition

WARNING - Firearms ammunition is a dangerous material and should only be handled, used, and/or re-loaded by persons of LEGAL AGE who are COMPETENT TO DO SO !!!

In these days of civil unrest and rampant crime, those of us who have decided to arm ourselves with handguns are faced not only with the outrageously escalated prices of good high capacity weapons like the Beretta, Ruger and Taurus...

CO2 Mortar

by Sic Pyr0 and Cody

To start don't do this near breakable stuff like ummmmm... Cars!! seeing one of these come close to a car is scary enough -- I haven't put one through a windshield and I'm not looking forward to it. That said... on to the construction.


Materials needed




1) a box of 12 gram co2 cartrages (like what you put into a pellet gun.)

2) tape (packaging is what i have use but Duct tape should...

Bullets For Beginners

by Anonymous

Bullets for Beginners

Guns are generally classified according to use, size, and tradition. This varies among the military services. The basic distinction is between small arms and artillery. Any gun below a 20-millimeter bore size is generally classified as a small arm. An alternative term gaining increasing currency is "light arms," to include individual and light support weapons. The soldier's individual weapons consist...

Budget Self Defense - Cheap Knives

by Rain Face

Budget Self Defense - Cheap Knives

by Rain Face

Someone's going to get killed trying this on some hophead skimp on the 24 Divisidero... Me? I've carried an AMT .380 for the past twelve years, after I started to get too lazy to schlep a 9mm Walther. For those less hardcore, I'd suggest the following:

The best self-defense bargain in America today is the fabulous $2.95 Snap-Blade utility kn...