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Joe Obenberger · 12-07-2012, 03:29 PM

Chemical weapons are low tech, cheap, and easy to make. (Read the "final battle" chapter of Lucifer's Hammer showing how field expedient mustard gas can be made without equipment and delivered in mason jars with catapaults, any of the volumes of The Poor Man's James Bond by Saxton, or consider how much damage they did using the technology of 1914 or so in WWI).

This is not like building an atomic bomb. (Not all that hard either, just very expensive to do. They were first built using circa 1940, pre-transistsor, radio tube, pre-computer technology by theoretical specialists doing it for the first time, who did not know, to start, how much fissionable mass it took to go critical, how to initiate the first particles to start detonation, what geometry to use, what material to make a particle reflector with, how to place conventional explosives, how to time synchronous explosions, etc. They kept it pretty basic for the first one and it worked. A sawed off howitzer barrel and two hunks of fissionable uranium and a firing mechanism. That's all it took to kill more than 10,000 Hiroshima. The Nagasaki bomb used a Plutonium sphere, more complicated, and worked just hunky-dory, too. All that's been worked out and is known to every advanced physicist in the world; the difficulty is in getting enough ore, in having enough equipment working long enough to produce enough fissionable material in a reasonable time; if you have to make it from scratch, it takes the resources of a nation-state, but not necessarily a big or rich one. Israel, Pakistan, South Africa, and North Korea all pulled it off - and it's rumored that Israel stole its first quantity of fissionable Uranium)

The hard part is using them effectively without killing your own troops - storage and delivery issues. And that's a whole different issue.

In West Germany, during the 80's, we'd go on alert wearing those NBC suits for 24 hours and try to do our jobs. Not comfortable at all. Try connecting the canteen to a tube in your mask to get a drink. Or to read or see in general when the mask fogs up. Or to scratch an itch. I would not envy those Marines on alert off the coast right now in those temperatures.

If Syria wants them, it already has them. It's just not hard at all to do using commonly available chemicals and grade school science lab equipment.

12-07-2012, 03:29 PM
Joe Obenberger Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 466	Chemical weapons are low tech, cheap, and easy to make. (Read the "final battle" chapter of Lucifer's Hammer showing how field expedient mustard gas can be made without equipment and delivered in mason jars with catapaults, any of the volumes of The Poor Man's James Bond by Saxton, or consider how much damage they did using the technology of 1914 or so in WWI). This is not like building an atomic bomb. (Not all that hard either, just very expensive to do. They were first built using circa 1940, pre-transistsor, radio tube, pre-computer technology by theoretical specialists doing it for the first time, who did not know, to start, how much fissionable mass it took to go critical, how to initiate the first particles to start detonation, what geometry to use, what material to make a particle reflector with, how to place conventional explosives, how to time synchronous explosions, etc. They kept it pretty basic for the first one and it worked. A sawed off howitzer barrel and two hunks of fissionable uranium and a firing mechanism. That's all it took to kill more than 10,000 Hiroshima. The Nagasaki bomb used a Plutonium sphere, more complicated, and worked just hunky-dory, too. All that's been worked out and is known to every advanced physicist in the world; the difficulty is in getting enough ore, in having enough equipment working long enough to produce enough fissionable material in a reasonable time; if you have to make it from scratch, it takes the resources of a nation-state, but not necessarily a big or rich one. Israel, Pakistan, South Africa, and North Korea all pulled it off - and it's rumored that Israel stole its first quantity of fissionable Uranium) The hard part is using them effectively without killing your own troops - storage and delivery issues. And that's a whole different issue. In West Germany, during the 80's, we'd go on alert wearing those NBC suits for 24 hours and try to do our jobs. Not comfortable at all. Try connecting the canteen to a tube in your mask to get a drink. Or to read or see in general when the mask fogs up. Or to scratch an itch. I would not envy those Marines on alert off the coast right now in those temperatures. If Syria wants them, it already has them. It's just not hard at all to do using commonly available chemicals and grade school science lab equipment. __________________ Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice. . . Restraint in the pursuit of Justice is no virtue. Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964