VX Nerve gas GOOF


So the military wants to use VX nerve gas to exterminate the frankenlocust swarms. You see the movie's characters toting gas masks for protection.
GOOF!!!
Anyone who's been in the military knows this.
Nerve gas works not only by inhalation, but also by skin permeation. All you need is for nerve gas to contact your skin and it's hasta la vista, baby! Your nervous system starts going haywire as the toxic chemical shuts down production of nerve receptor neutralizers in the brain. You start spasing out like an epileptic, then your nervous system and vascular system shut down and you're stone dead as you topple over.
Protection from nerve gas requires wearing a full-body chemical suit along with the gas mask. Even the feet and hands need non-permeable protection. And when it's over, you have to be extra careful removing those contaminated garments less nerve gas contaminants enter your system.
Nerve gas is one of mankind's most hideous and diabolical weapons of mass destruction.
Ironically, German scientists before World War I were experimenting on a more effective chemical insect repellant and poison. They found a new way to 'spray' humans dead like we use bug spray today.
At the outset of World War II, all the belligerents were fully prepared for the resumption of gas warfare. The Allies were prepared to use poison gas only in retaliation if the Axis powers used it first. Fortunately for the world, Adolf Hitler was a victim of poison gas in the first world war and was temporarily blinded. He was terrified of poison gas and despite the pressure from some of his more desperate and immoral military leaders, he resisted deploying gas weapons to the very end. History records that Hitler however, did seriously consider its use during the war, but his own bad experience showed him how uncontrollable the use of poison gas weapons would spiral out of control on the battlefield.
After the war everyone thought poison gas weapons would be consigned to the trashcan of obsolete military weapons. But for insane reasons only known to the former Soviet leadership, the Russians decided that poison gas weapons should be developed and prepared for battlefield use in the projected world war three with the western powers. The Soviet government and military didn't need chemical weapons to fight a world war against the west but again, for some diabololical insane sense of reasoning, they felt it was necessary to continue research, development, and chemcial weapons stockpiling. The Imperial Russian army had been subjected to deadly chemical gas weapons in World War I and the later communist Russian government were apparently taking no chances. It was so f---ing insane...billions of dollars wasted on both sides developing and stockpiling chemical weapons and having to develop countermeasures and antidotes to the poison. Soldiers on both sides were trained on the use of a self-injector that would inject, ironically, another poison, into one's own body to neutralize the chemical nerve gas agent. You had to already be poisoned with nerve gas inside your body to use the antidote. Using the antidote on a healthy human body was deadly in itself, having the opposite effect of nerve gas poisoning.

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