#Chemical warfare

[nemfrog]

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

Library of Congress

[hazmatgearguy]

Oregon Guard members learn the basics of hazardous operations ☣️

[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? 🤔

[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

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

[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.

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

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[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.

[the-one-chin-wonder]

[nemfrog]

Gas! Know your chemical warfare. 1944.

Internet Archive

[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

August 10th, 1961: The US Army begins Operation Ranch Hand in the Vietnam War. It sprays 20million gallons of chemicals over rural South Vietnam to decrease food supplies for the Viet Cong.

[hazmatgearguy]

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

[quixoticanarchy]

visiting my parents rn and i cannot stop talking about chemical weapons and my mother was like 'wow you seem to know a lot you should do something with that' by which she means 'get a job' but i would prefer to interpret it as being encouraged by my own parents to make mustard gas

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

𝔉𝔯𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔥 𝔴𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔫 𝔴𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔤𝔞𝔰 𝔪𝔞𝔰𝔨𝔰 𝔱𝔬 𝔭𝔯𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔟𝔩𝔢 𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔪𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔩 𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔣𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔫 𝔚𝔬𝔯𝔩𝔡 𝔚𝔞𝔯 ℑℑ