#Chemical Warfare

[destielmemenews]

"Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who headed Russia’s radiological, biological and chemical protections forces, was killed by an explosive device planted in an electric scooter.

Ukraine’s security services were behind the assassination, a source told CNN, calling Kirillov a “war criminal and an absolutely legitimate target.”"

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[no-tengo-ojos]

Arthur should just cough on all these guys, give them turbo-covid, wait for them to perish then take the black stone and leg it

[nemfrog]

Gas! Know your chemical warfare. 1944.

Internet Archive

[reality-detective]

Around 20 attendees of Trump’s Tucson, Arizona rally mysteriously fell ill after the event, experiencing symptoms like blurry vision and swelling.

All those affected were seated on the side of the stage where Trump made his entrance before stepping up to the podium.

One attendee revealed that her doctor diagnosed her with a chemical burn.

Was this another assassination attempt? 🤔

[hazmatgearguy]

Oregon Guard members learn the basics of hazardous operations ☣️

[quixoticanarchy]

Because my latest accidental interest is chemical weapons, and because all my interests end up infected with a Tolkien angle, I present to you this: the Nazgûl attacks as interpreted as a form of chemical warfare.

This lines up well both with the Nazgûl ability to inflict fear on a mass scale and with the impacts of the Black Breath. People don't necessarily know what they're facing or what's happening to them, but both the experience and even the threat of it are terrifying. It also allows the obvious evocation of WWI gas warfare, though not, say, accompanied by the physical effects of chlorine or mustard. The Black Breath has both psychological and physiological effects which require medical treatment, and this description I think could be applied essentially unchanged to instances of chemical warfare:

At length even the stout-hearted would fling themselves to the ground as the hidden menace passed over them, or they would stand, letting their weapons fall from nerveless hands while into their minds a blackness came, and they thought no more of war, but only of hiding and of crawling, and of death.

I also think it would be fun if athelas (which treats the Black Breath) was a member of the nightshade family (which includes sources of natural atropine, which can treat the effects of exposure to certain chemical agents). This would put the Black Breath in the second generation of chemical agents, maybe a type of organophosphate nerve gas

[general-cybernetics]

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

1939 İstanbul

[historyandarthijinks]

Art of War (7)

War Poem by Wilfred Owen

Dulce et Decorum Est

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,

Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,

Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,

And towards our distant rest began to trudge.

Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,

But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;

Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots

Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling

Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,

But someone still was yelling out and stumbling

And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—

Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,

As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight,

He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace

Behind the wagon that we flung him in,

And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,

His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood

Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,

Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud

Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest

To children ardent for some desperate glory,

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est

Pro patria mori.

Context

Dulce et Decorum Est (Published 1920) - Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) [England, United Kingdom]

Poem was written by WW1 soldier Wilfred Owen about the hypocrisy and propaganda spread by those who did no actively serve in the war. This poem specifically highlights the horrors of WW1 and the usage of chemical warfare. The gas shown in this poem to be killing is comrades is likely Chlorine Gas. Wilfred Owen did not go on to survive the war, but he wrote many antiwar poems. He lived only up to the age twenty-five.

[madnessofmen]

Soldier wearing a Miller-Tissot mask with Geer carrier, c. April 1918.

[saphic-with-t]

Adventuring Party Description:

1. Zac brings a gift into the dome with him for Ally, innocent and unknowing of what hell he has contained on him. A hell that will soon be unleashed.

2. Chemical warfare begins.

3. Two targeted strikes are the first to happen, both directed at Zac himself, with the very thing he brought as a gift. He will never smell the same.

4. Zac brings vengeance upon those who wronged him, striking 4 different people.

5. Emily and Murph are never attacked directly, but the weapon is two strong. It spreads, it’s power seeping into the nostrils of any and all it can.

6. The crew, nothing but innocent bystanders, are affected, no one is safe, no one is spared. But war is cruel like that, it kills the innocent along with the wicked.

7. We have learned a valuable lesson in why chemical warfare is a war crime.

[cavalierzee]

Israel’s Biological War On Gaza

Gaza is now full of skin diseases and it’s quickly getting worse.

Jake Shields

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

GRIM AFTERMATH OF A GAS ATTACK -- "WAR IS A BLACK HOLE TO AVOID."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a. WWI-themed art piece titled "Dressing the Wounded During a Gas Attack," pastels on paper/artwork by English artist & occultist, Austin Osman Spare, c. 1919.

Resolution at 765x1023 & 715x960.

IMAGE OVERVIEW: "A wounded British infantryman has his left leg dressed by a man of the Royal Army Medical Corps. Both men wear gas masks as a gas attack is in progress. The wounded man sits beside a bomb damaged tree stump, the RAMC man sitting at his feet with his back to the viewer. The foreground is littered with medical kit, debris and the hand of a dead soldier encroaches into the composition. A shell violently explodes in the background."

-- IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM (IWM Art Collection)

Sources: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/25090 & Pinterest.

[nemfrog]

"Gas masks reconditioned for civilian defense use at the gas mask factory." Jack Delano, photographer. 1942.

Library of Congress

[the-one-chin-wonder]

[hazmatgearguy]

WARNING⚠️ THIS IS A BIOHAZARD AREA. HAZMAT GEAR IS REQUIRED TO ENTER.☣️