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Dispersing radiation for Nuwax-81 exercise

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:01:46 +0000

This is clipped from the 1982 Defense Department film, NUWAX-81 Documentary Nuclear Weapon Accident Exercise. This clip shows the spraying of short-lived radioisotopes via an agricultural sprayer to a localized area to simulate contamination by weapons-grade plutonium.
The Nuclear Weapons Accident Exercise (NUWAX-81) was conducted in April 1981 jointly by the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Energy (DOE) at the DOE’s Nevada test site and included FEMA and the State of California. The six day exercise scenario involved a simulated crash of an U.S. Army helicopter transporting nuclear weapons to a storage site. Aircraft parts and pieces of inert nuclear training weapons were prepositioned at the site. Short-lived radioisotopes, radium-223 and mercury-197, were distributed via an agricultural sprayer to a localized area to simulate contamination by weapons-grade plutonium. More than 600 accident response personnel participated in the exercise. The major objectives were to exercise and evaluate the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s interface with DOD, the command and control of the joint DOD-DOE response forces, and the coordination of their technical and logistical support. The exercise aroused greater awareness within federal and state governments of the need to plan and coordinate response procedures and to practice these procedures and was followed up by additional exercises. The entire film, NUWAX-81 Documentary Nuclear Weapon Accident Exercise, has been digitized by the nonprofit Public.Resource.Org (http://public.resource.org/index.html ) in a cooperative agreement with the National Technical Information Service (http://public.resource.org/ntis.gov/index.html ) and is available at the Internet Archive at www.archive.com .

Duration : 0:0:54

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Bush Makes A Sick Joke About WMDs and the War in Iraq

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:18:05 +0000

See title.

Duration : 0:1:41

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Israeli army terrorising and burning civilians using banned chemical weapons – Jan 2009

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:00:07 +0000

Human rights groups say Israel is indiscriminately using white phosphorus in Gaza’s densely populated areas.

When ignited, the chemical can burn the flesh off of a person, down to the bone.
source: AlJazeeraEnglish report watch?v=MKgph9PV3SA

Duration : 0:2:50

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ITÄ 110 Finnish military exercise – Chemical clening

admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:46:39 +0000

FIN: Koostevideo torstain 17.6. tapahtuneesta, Kemikaalien puhdistus.

ENG: Footage of the events that took place 17 june during Finnish military exercise ITÄ 110, chemical cleaning.

Duration : 0:3:43

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How To Build a Ping Pong Spud gun from Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction

admin — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:07:52 +0000

Ping Pong Zooka / Build time: 3 Minutes
-1 cardboard tube
-1 BBQ lighter
-1 Ruler
-1 Roll of Duct Tape
-Aqua Net
-Ping Pong

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Duration : 0:2:5

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Peter & Christopher Hitchens: Salman Rushdie, Chernobyl Disaster – News Events Part 7 (1994)

admin — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:47:20 +0000

February 14, 1994

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, KBE (born 19 June 1947) is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He achieved notability with his second novel, Midnight’s Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western worlds.

His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of a major controversy, drawing protests from Muslims in several countries. Some of the protests were violent, in which death threats were issued to Rushdie, including a fatwā against him by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, in February 1989.

He was appointed a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II for “services to literature” in June 2007. He holds the rank Commandeur in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France. He began a five-year term as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emory University in 2007. In May 2008 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2008, The Times ranked Rushdie thirteenth on their list of “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945.” His latest novel is The Enchantress of Florence, published in June 2008.

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the former Soviet Union). It is considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in history and is the only level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

On April 26, 1986, reactor number four at the Chernobyl plant, near the town of Pripyať in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, had a meltdown. The resulting fire sent a plume of radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area, including Pripyat. The plume drifted over large parts of the western Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Northern Europe. Large areas in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia had to be evacuated, with over 336,000 people resettled. According to official post-Soviet data, about 60% of the fallout landed in Belarus.

The accident raised concerns about the safety of the Soviet nuclear power industry as well as nuclear power in general, slowing its expansion for a number of years while forcing the Soviet government to become less secretive.

The countries of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus have been burdened with the continuing and substantial decontamination and health care costs of the Chernobyl accident. A 2005 report prepared by the Chernobyl Forum, led by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and World Health Organization (WHO), attributed “fewer than 50″ direct deaths (including nine children with thyroid cancer) and estimated that there may be up to 4,000 additional cancer deaths over time among the approximately 600,000 most highly exposed people. Although the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and certain limited areas remain off limits, the majority of affected areas are now considered safe for settlement and economic activity.

Duration : 0:11:0

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In a Gas Mask – Chemical, Biological and Radiological Defence Group (Defence Watch Apr 10)

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:08:16 +0000

There is a special group of soldiers in the Singapore Armed Forces, specially trained to deal with potentially lethal substances. In this video, watch how these men equip themselves with gas masks, as they prepare to deal with Chemical, Biological, and Radiological threats. On 6 May, catch part 2 of the video – featuring men who deal with the explosives – on cyberpioneerTV.

Duration : 0:3:53

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US Army: Chemical Weapons Testing

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:06:11 +0000

Shows US Army test of chemical weapons on US Soldiers.

Department of Defense. Department of the Army. U.S. Army Materiel Command. U.S. Army Pictorial Center. (08/01/1962 – 12/1972)

ARC Identifier 599938 / Local Identifier 111-CWS-2 1970

Chemical Munitions Testing

ca. 1970

DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon.

This movie is part of the collection: FedFlix

Producer: National Archives and Records Administration
Language: English
Keywords: archives.gov; public.resource.org

Creative Commons license: CC0 1.0 Universal

Digitized and provided by the Internet Archive, Archive.org:

Duration : 0:9:32

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Nerve Agent History WWII

admin — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:09:03 +0000

First discovered accidentally during the 1930s by industrial chemists in Germany conducting pesticide research, the nerve agents Tabun (GA) and Sarin (GB) were developed into chemical weapons and stockpiled by the Nazi regime. Fortunately, Hitler did not order their use during World War II because German intelligence believed–incorrectly–that the United States and the Soviet Union had developed similar weapons. After the war, the victorious Allies competed among themselves for the secrets of the Nazi nerve agent program. In the early 1950s, British industrial scientists accidentally discovered a second generation of nerve agents that were even more toxic than Sarin and were dubbed “V agents” because of their venomous (skin-penetrating) properties. During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union pursued a chemical arms race in which they produced and stockpiled various nerve agents in the thousands of tons. For a detailed history for the general reader of the discovery, development, proliferation, and control of nerve agents such as Tabun, Sarin, Soman, and VX, read the 2006 book, War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda, By Jonathan B. Tucker. During the 1960s, ocean dumping, openpit burning, and land burials were the U.S. Armys method of destroying chemical weapons. In 1969, the National Academy of Sciences recommended that ocean dumping be avoided. In the late 1960s President Nixon halts the production of chemical weapons. In 1972, the Army formed the U.S. Army Materiel Commands Program Manager for Demilitarization of Chemical Materiel, headquartered at Picatinny Arsenal, near Dover, NJ. The Army developed chemical weapons disposal methods using incineration and chemical neutralization. Project Eagle incinerates six million pounds of mustard agent and neutralizes eight million pounds of nerve agent GB (sarin) at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colo. between 1972 and 1976. Today, The U.S. Army’s Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) safely stores and destroys the nation’s aging chemical weapons and recovers the nation’s chemical warfare materials. The agency is based at the Edgewood Area of the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, while other managers and staff fulfill the agency’s mission from weapons storage and disposal at locations across the county. For more on the CMA, link to their website at http://www.cma.army.mil/home.aspx . This clip is from the 1963 film, Nerve Agents, available at the national Archives. The film is from the U. S. Army Training Film series on the features and tactical use of GA (tabun), GB (sarin), and V-class nerve agents as munitions for chemical warfare. Explains how the nerve gas agents enter the human body and the symptoms of poisoning, and shows the protective and first-aid measures that may be taken against them.

Duration : 0:2:11

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Genuine Army Gas Masks and Filters Promo

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:25:23 +0000

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Our current inventory includes everything from Genuine Issue (GI) WWI, WWII, Korean, Vietnam and current issue gas mask and supplies. We also carry a large selection of European Gas Masks as well as commercial NBC gear. There is something here for everyone from collectors, police, to folks looking for preparedness items.

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Duration : 0:1:19

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