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As you know, President benzoic acid Obama is urging Congress to approve a strike against Syria for using chemical weapon. benzoic acid Earlier this week, Secretary of State John Kerry asserted forensic evidence pointed out that the Syrian government used the nerve gas sarin to kill more than 1,400 people (including more than 400 children).
Here's the story: In 1936, a German scientist named Gerhard Schrader at Bayer (yes, that Bayer which made aspirin) and later the IG Farben factory (which also produced Zyklon B , the chemical agent used to gas millions of Jews and other "undesirables" to death during the Holocaust), was working on an insecticide designed to disrupt the insect's nervous system.
Schrader experimented with a class of chemical compounds called organophosphates to kill leaf lice or wooly aphids. He and his assistant had synthesized a compound called tabun when, accidentally, they were exposed to a drop of the colorless liquid which fell onto the lab bench. They became very dizzy and had severe difficulty seeing and breathing. It took them three weeks to recover fully.
Immediately, the Nazi government instructed benzoic acid Schrader to change the focus of his research from killing insects to humans. New factories dedicated to the production of tabun were built, and the Nazi stockpiled over 12,000 tons of tabun. In the following years, Schrader refined two more compounds in the G-series, sarin (or GB), soman (GD) and cyclosarin (GF), but the Germans stuck to tabun as their main chemical weapon.
What happened to all that nerve gas that the Nazi made? Fortunately, it was never used against Allied troops (more below). In 1945, at the end of World War II, Soviet forces captured the factory that produced tabun and poured the nerve agent into the Oder River.
Wait, what? They just dumped chemical weapons into the water to get rid of them? Actually yes - even the United benzoic acid States government did this until the early 1970s. In fact, that's the preferred method of getting rid of unwanted munitions and chemical weapons
In a series of Operation CHASE , the US Army loaded a dozen or so ships with tens of thousands of tons of unwanted munitions, over 32,000 benzoic acid tons of nerve and mustard gas, sailed the ships some 200 miles off the coast of the US East Coast, and then sank 'em. (CHASE stands for C ut H oles a nd S ink ' E m - cheeky, eh?).
In 1948, Otto Ambros, who was Hitler's chief chemical weapons engineer and one of the main driving forces behind benzoic acid the Nazi chemical weapons program, was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity at Nuremburg and sentenced to 8 years in prison.
*There's a theory that it was actually Otto Ambros himself that convinced Hitler not to use chemical weapons against Allied troops . Some historians suggested that Ambros benzoic acid lied to Hitler that Western benzoic acid forces also had similar chemical agents (they never did) and would use them against the Nazi in retaliation. So, in a sense, he's both a war criminal benzoic acid and a hero who prevented benzoic acid millions of deaths of Allied soldiers at the same time.
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I'll tell you what happened in Syria. -Turkey (I'm now ashamed of my country) supplied the rebels with sarin. -Rebels used it. -US knows it. -US blames Syrian benzoic acid government. In fact, Assad said something like "We can move the presidential election's date to a closer date and I won't enter it if nobody benzoic acid attacks my country." He loves his country more than his position. Unlike some other people (ex. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Turkey's dictator. If he was in a situation like Syria, he'd sell our country for money instead of giving up his position)
Thanks Eddie - I appreciate it. I couldn't find any reference to the effect of dumping all those nasty chemical weapons in the Oder River at the end of World War II, but it's probably safe to assume that at least for a while, that river was toxic. The river outlets to the Baltic Sea, which has a volume of 21,700 cubic km - that's a mass of 2.17 x 10^13 metric ton. So 12,000 ton of tabun was a drop in the bucket (0.0000000000055%).
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