Sarin

Nazi Inventions during WWII Nazi Germany held a significant technological edge over other nation’s militaries during the lead-up to the war in Europe (Scott N. Romaniuk, Tobias J. Burgers, Shih-Yueh Yang 2017). Many people don’t even know about the many projects Hitler tried to keep secret. Scientist and researchers are still finding out many things that happened in Nazi Germany, during WWII. Hitler had many secret projects; many of these no one ever knew about. One of which was the Horten Ho…

I) Wars are unpredictable; they can range from massive to small- either way, a war is a conflict that can drastically affect the lives of people. Occasionally we are unaware about the wars that are destroying the lives of others yet we can't escape the reality of the bloodshed that is the result of war; we are eventually informed about what is occurring. Sometimes we do multiple attempts to lend a hand, but other times our minds are not completely wrapped around the issue at hand which makes it…

defensive lines. Since the U.S. was for Iraq winning the war, they gave information on the whereabouts of the Iranian forces to Iraq, knowing that Saddam’s army would use chemical weapons to attack the Iranians, including sarin (“Iran/United states: Retired army officer,”…

itself in the history of the nation. This event was the 1995 Tokyo Sarin gas attack. During this event Sarin gas was released in the Tokyo subway system resulting in twelve dead and thousands injured. This attack was conducted by five members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult (Aum). In his book Underground, Haruki Murakami interviewed the victims and ex-members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult in order to discover what occurred during the 1995 Sarin attacks. He compiled those interviews together and included…

The image of a pile of bodies that had just been removed from the gas chambers in Auschwitz is still burned in my mind today. It is still as horrifying to me today as it was when I was eight, when I stumbled upon it, reading an encyclopedia on World War Two. How is it that someone could create something so petrifying, so destructive? How is it that one person’s creation could suck the life from millions, leaving them a pile of skin, flesh, and bone, on the floor? Chemical warfare is an invention…

Chemical Warfare started by the Germans one hundred years ago on January 2, 1915. The Germans had first attacked using Chlorine gas. Which had started a war we called Chemical Warfare. Some of the chemicals the Germans used in bombs and gases were Sarin. Sarin was a liquid that had no taste, odor, color and was man-made that turned to gas in a matter of seconds. The next chemical was called Ricin, it is a common plant called the Castor Bean, it was used for oil but was highly deadly. It can kill…

agents such as botulin, anthrax, cholera, and Q fever. These failed biological resulted in Aum to switching their methods of attack to chemical weapons. In 1994, Aum launched a sarin attack on a residential neighborhood which killed seven and injured more than one hundred people. The attack that Aum is most infamous for was the sarin attack on 20 March 1995. On this date, Aum members simultaneously released the chemical nerve agent on several Tokyo subway trains, killing 12 persons and injuring…

Cults: The Real Threat More than 30 people are killed violently each day in the United States in a variety of ways and in multiple areas regardless of the socioeconomic status of those areas. Right now in our country, guns, racism, and poverty are blamed for much of the violence. However, most of our society overlooks another cause of violent activity in America. Cults. Over 100 cults are here in America, and they conduct mass suicides and other acts of violence creating danger to our country.…

Chemical Warfare: An “Unconvential” threat Throughout the history of war, techniques and use of weapons in warfare have been improved over the years. Although some weapons and certain techniques are entirely new, the use of certain weapons such as Chemical Warfare have been around since WW1. Many have thought of Chemical Weapons as being too dangerous while others think it is necessary and essential to modern warfare. What threats does Chemical warfare pose to soldiers and civilians around the…

In the book The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi she recounts her life during the Iranian Revolution and the war that followed. During the Iranian revolution the Germans sold chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq during the duration of the revolution. These chemical weapons were a huge reason the medical resources were taken from the civilians and put towards the soldiers of the revolution. In the book, Satrapi talks about her trip to the hospital for her uncle and her witnessing victims of…