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Nerve agent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nerve agents (also known as nerve gases, though these chemicals are liquid at room temperature) are a class of phosphorus-containing organic chemicals (organophosphates) that inhibit the acetylcholinesterase enzyme in animals. Nerve agents can be absorbed through the skin, requiring that those likely to be subjected to such agents wear a full body suit in addition to a gas mask. Iraq briefly used chemical weapons, including nerve agents, during the Iran-Iraq war of 1981-1988; the Kurdish village of Halabja was exposed to nerve agents, and controversy still rages as to whether this was a deliberate or accidental act. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nerve_gas

Military Nerve Gas Agents Primary treatment for Tabun and several other nerve agents is Atropine Sulfate. The second drug that is used in the treatment of "nerve gas" poisoning is Pralidoxime chloride (2/3-PAMC1). Nerve agents can kill after being inhaled in vapors form or if the skin is exposed to them in liquid form. www.emergency.com /2003/nerve_gas_bckgrndr.htm

VX Gas VX gas was developed in the Porton Down Chemical Weapons Research Centre, Wiltshire, England in 1952 and its devastating effects were tested. So it is more dangerous and toxic than its cousins of the "G" variety like GA (Tabun) and GB (Sarin), which dissipate quickly and have only short-term effects. VX gas is one of the most dangerous chemicals created. www.chem.ox.ac.uk /mom/vx/VX.htm

Forgotten Battles: The Weapons: Tabun Nerve Gas One of the original nerve gases, it was found to be exceptionaly hard to manufacture and was thus never mass produced. What he discovered was in fact a gas ten times more lethal than Phosgene, previously thought to be the most deadly of war gases. Known to science as pinacolyl methyl phosphoro-flouridate, this gas was never taken beyond the laboratory. www.geocities.com /pentagon/bunker/3351/germweps/tabun.html

Management of Nerve Gas Casualties On 17 March, 1984, the first nerve gas, "tabun", was used against Iranians. Both mustard and nerve gases were employed, but the role of nerve gas was more significant. From February 1984 until the end of war (1988), mustard and nerve agents were used on a large scale. pdm.medicine.wisc.edu /Foroutan.htm

WorldNetDaily: Nerve-gas chemicals `bound for N. Korea` Sodium cyanide, commonly used in the treatment of metals, is also a key ingredient in the manufacture of the deadly nerve gas Tabun (dimethylphosphoramido-cyanidate). Some 30 tons of sodium cyanide were officially being shipped by a German company to a Singapore warehouse, but Washington believes the material was headed for North Korea. In its issue now hitting newsstands, Der Spiegel says Germany's intelligence service issued a warning last week about attempts by North Korea to get ahold of banned material under cover of businesses based in China and Singapore, according to an Agence France-Presse summary. www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32640

JS Online: Nerve agents detected in Iraq Chemical tests for nerve agents in the warehouse came back positive for so-called G-Series nerve agents, which include sarin and Tabun, both of which Iraq has been known to possess. The soldiers also found hundreds of gas masks and chemical suits at the military complex, along with large numbers of mortar and artillery rounds. Sarin can be inhaled or absorbed through the skin and is considered one of the most feared but also the most volatile of the nerve agents. www.jsonline.com /news/gen/apr03/131713.asp

Nerve agent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In experiments, tabun was extremely potent against insects: as little as 5 ppm of tabun killed all the leaf lice he used in his initial experiment. Nerve agents (also known as nerve gases, though these chemicals are liquid at room temperature) are a class of phosphorus-containing organic chemicals (organophosphates) that disrupt the mechanism by which nerves transfer messages to organs. One of the most widely publicised uses of nerve agents was the 1995 terrorist attack in which operatives of the group Aum Shinrikyo released sarin into the Tokyo subway system (see Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nerve_agent   (2518 words)

Nerve Gas Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base) Speer, who was strongly opposed to the introduction of tabun, flew Otto Ambros, I.G.'s authority on poison gas as well as synthetic rubber, to the meeting. This and the widespread use of anticholinergic drugs as a protective treatment against nerve gas attack has been proposed as a possible cause of Gulf war syndrome. The first nerve agent ever synthesised was GA (tabun) in 1936. www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/Nerve_gas   (1823 words)

Encyclopedia: Nerve gas Nerve agents can be absorbed through the skin, requiring that those likely to be subjected to such agents wear a full body suit in addition to a gas mask. Nerve agents (also known as nerve gases, though these chemicals are liquid at room temperature) are a class of phosphorus -containing organic chemicals ( organophosphates) that inhibit the acetylcholinesterase enzyme in animals. Nerve agents were not used by Iraq in the Gulf War, despite widespread fears to the contrary. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nerve-gas   (1823 words)

Encyclopedia: Nerve gas Nerve agents can be absorbed through the skin, requiring that those likely to be subjected to such agents wear a full body suit in addition to a gas mask. Nerve agents (also known as nerve gases, though these chemicals are liquid at room temperature) are a class of phosphorus -containing organic chemicals ( organophosphates) that inhibit the acetylcholinesterase enzyme in animals. Nerve agents were not used by Iraq in the Gulf War, despite widespread fears to the contrary. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nerve-gas   (1823 words)

New Page Tabun a is fast acting nerve gas used in the wars as a killing machine. Tabun is used as a military nerve gas. Tabun's liquid form it could disable and kill when absorbed through the skin and the vapor attacks the lungs and eyes. web1.caryacademy.org /chemistry/rushin/StudentProjects/CompoundWebSites/1999/Tabun/use.htm   (1823 words)

Halabja poison gas attack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Halabja attack involved multiple chemical agents, including mustard gas, and the nerve agents sarin, tabun and VX." Some sources have also pointed to the blood agent Hydrogen Cyanide. DMMP (dimethyl methylphosphonate) is a nerve gas precursor. The Halabja poison gas attack was an incident on 15 March-19 March 1988 during a major battle in the Iran-Iraq war when chemical weapons were used, allegedly by Iraqi government forces, to kill a number of people in the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja (population 80,000). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Halabja_poison_gas_attack   (1216 words)

Articles - Poison gas After the incident, traces of mustard gas and the nerve agents sarin, tabun and VX were discovered. The chemical structure of sarin nerve gas, discovered by Germany in 1938. Second, gas shells could be delivered without warning, especially the clear, nearly odorless phosgene— there are numerous accounts of gas shells, landing with a "plop" rather than exploding, being initially dismissed as dud high explosive or shrapnel shells, giving the gas time to work before the soldiers were alerted and took precautions. www.seekj.com /articles/Poison_gas   (6536 words)

Hector Rottweiller Jr's Web Log: How Auburndale, Massachusetts Got WMD Capability The major technical hurdle in tabun synthesis is the cyanation reaction (in which a cyanide group is added to the central phosphorus), because of the difficulty of containing the toxic hydrogen cyanide HCN gas used as the reagent.. Little or no distillation equipment is required, although the purity of tabun can be increased to more than 80 percent by removing the carrier solvent and the off-gasses by vacuum distillation. In sum, tabun production is relatively easy because it does not include the difficult alkylation reaction needed to make the other nerve agents. www.panix.com /~hncl/HectorsJournal/archives/000109.html   (6536 words)

Fact Sheet: Chemical Warfare in the Iraq-Iran War The second poison gas identified by the UN team was the nerve-gas tabun. Because tabun acts much more rapidly than mustard, it could be thought capable of stopping massed infantry assaults on the move, at least when dropped in large air-burst bombs. Tabun, or ethyl NN-dimethylphosphoramidocyanidate, otherwise known as GA, is such an agent. projects.sipri.se /cbw/research/factsheet-1984.html   (6536 words)

Tabun tabun täbn, liquid chemical compound used as a nerve gas. The mode of toxicity of Tabun is similar to Sarin, however, Tabun is not as toxic. Tabun is another example of a organophosphate neurotoxin. www.health-nexus.com /tabun.htm   (6536 words)

tabun : Definition from the Online Dictionary at Datasegment.com 1 definition found tabun - WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) : tabun n : the first known nerve agent, synthesized by German chemists in 1936; a highly toxic combustible liquid that is soluble in organic solvents and is used as a nerve gas in chemical warfare [syn: GA ] tabun : Definition from the Online Dictionary at Datasegment.com onlinedictionary.datasegment.com /word/tabun   (6536 words)

ATSDR - MMG: Nerve Agents: Tabun (GA); Sarin (GB); Soman (GD); and VX Nerve agents are readily absorbed from the respiratory tract. Nerve agents alter cholinergic synaptic transmission at neuroeffector junctions (muscarinic effects), at skeletal myoneural junctions and autonomic ganglia (nicotinic effects), and in the CNS. Nerve agents are extremely toxic and can cause loss of consciousness and convulsions within seconds and death from respiratory failure within minutes of exposure. www.atsdr.cdc.gov /MHMI/mmg166.html   (4996 words)

Chemical Weapons Programs - Iraq Special Weapons Facilities They progressed to the use of CW agents in mid-1983 with mustard, and in March 1984 with tabun (the first use ever of a nerve agent in war). The poison gas attack on Halabja was the largest-scale chemical weapons (CW) attack against a civilian population in modern times. The quality of the mustard agent was good (not less than 80 per cent pure) and was such that the agent could be stored for long periods, either in bulk or in weaponized form. www.fas.org /nuke/guide/iraq/cw/program.htm   (4996 words)

Nerve agent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia When an individual is exposed to low amounts of a nerve agent (as a gas or aerosol) the initial symptoms are a running nose, contraction of the pupils, visual accommodation deteriorates, headache, slurred speech, nausea, hallucinations, pronounced chest pains, and an increase in the production of saliva. Nerve agents are highly toxic chemical agents that poison the nervous system and disrupt bodily functions that are vital to an individuals survival. The initial stages of symptoms of an individual exposed to a nerve agent may vary depending on the particular agent and amount of the agent the person was exposed to. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nerve_agent   (4996 words)

CNS - CBW: Past Use April 1945 [CW] - Germans manufacture and stockpile large amounts of tabun and sarin nerve gases but do not use them. This incident is sometimes referred to as the first use of nerve gases, but according to SIPRI p. September 25, 1915 [CW] - First British chemical weapons attack; chlorine gas is used against Germans at the Battle of Loos. www.cns.miis.edu /research/cbw/pastuse.htm   (1994 words)

March 16, 1988 - Iraqi gas attack on Halabja 15 years ago killed 5,000 Kurds The Iraqis had used a deadly cocktail of mustard gas and nerve agents Tabun, Sarin and VX, according to testimony given to the US Senate by Christine Gosden, a genetics specialist at the University of Liverpool, who visited Halabja in 1998. This was to be the largest gas attack on civilians, experts said. An estimated 20,000 Iranian soldiers were killed in Iraqi chemical attacks between 1983 and 1988, according to a statement by the US State Department on the 10th anniversary of the Halabja attack. www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/866090/posts   (650 words)

The Left Coaster: Comment on WMDgate: Fixing Intelligence Around Policy, Part 3 -- The White House Iraq Protocol (WHIP) for Deceiving the United States This is how the Tabun, which may take up to one ton to effect a single casualty as it too easily disperses when mixed with air, was applied during the attack. The Sarin nerve gas attack in the Tokyo subway was a type of worst case scenario (i.e., deadly gas in an enclosed space during rush hour). This, of course, points to the Halabja poison gas attack that killed thousands. www.theleftcoaster.com /cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=6211   (9103 words)

Military Nerve Gas Agents Primary treatment for Tabun and several other nerve agents is Atropine Sulfate. Basic nerve agents are known as G-types, and include sarin and tabun. Tabun and sarin were among the agents used by the Iraqi government when it killed 5,000 Iraqi Kurds in Halabja in 1988. www.emergency.com /2003/nerve_gas_bckgrndr.htm   (9103 words)

Forgotten Battles: The Weapons: Tabun Nerve Gas There were in fact 3 different gases, of which Tabun was the most readily available when the war ended. Exposure to Tabun meant sure death in a matter of minutes. What he discovered was in fact a gas ten times more lethal than Phosgene, previously thought to be the most deadly of war gases. www.geocities.com /pentagon/bunker/3351/germweps/tabun.html   (9103 words)

Sarin - Soman - Tabun Tabun is also an organophosphate like many pesticides is among the easiest to nerve gases to manufacture. Tabun : It was invented by a German chemist, Gerhard Schrader, in the mid 1930s. Another one of Fraben's invention was Zyklon-B, a type of hydrogen cyanide used by the Nazis to gas victims in those same camps during World War II. www.manbir-online.com /diseases/sarin.htm   (9103 words)

Amazon.com: Books: 21st Century Essential NBC Reference Series: Chemical Weapons, Nerve Agents, VX, Sarin, Tabun, Soman, Cyanide, Lung Agents, Vesicants, Mustard Gas, BZ ... s Destruction WMD, First Responder Ringbound) This excerpt from the highly acclaimed military textbook, Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare, provides comprehensive and authoritative information on all aspects of chemical weapons, including nerve agents, VX, sarin, tabun, soman, cyanide, lung agents, vesicants, mustard gas, BZ, Tear Gas, CN, and CS. Amazon.com: Books: 21st Century Essential NBC Reference Series: Chemical Weapons, Nerve Agents, VX, Sarin, Tabun, Soman, Cyanide, Lung Agents, Vesicants, Mustard Gas, BZ... 21st Century Essential NBC Reference Series: Chemical Weapons, Nerve Agents, VX, Sarin, Tabun, Soman, Cyanide, Lung Agents, Vesicants, Mustard Gas, BZ... www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1592486355?v=glance   (9103 words)

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