NationStates Jolt Archive


UNMOVIC Finds Iraqi Nerve Gas!!!!!!!!!!!

Andaluciae
30-08-2007, 17:48
In a collection sample case in their own office. (http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/08/nerve-gas-scare.html)

You know, this is really confidence inspiring. Collecting a sample of a rather nasty substance, then setting it aside in your office and forgetting it for over a decade. Jeez.
Newer Burmecia
30-08-2007, 17:52
Time to invade the UN!
Remote Observer
30-08-2007, 17:56
Minor point:

Phosgene isn't really a nerve gas. It's a choking agent. While it is a war gas, it's not a nerve gas.
Callang Provinces
30-08-2007, 17:59
"They need to get it out of there and put it in a safe canister," Hauer said. "It shows immense stupidity to have that kind of thing sitting around as a souvenir."

NEVER!
Kryozerkia
30-08-2007, 19:01
:rolleyes: Wow... just... wow.
Aggicificicerous
30-08-2007, 19:08
According to an article in Foreign Affairs, the chemical was allegedly used by Iran in the Iran-Iraq war in 1987."

Not Iraq. Iran. Quick, we had better invade Iran before they gas us again!
Entropic Creation
30-08-2007, 20:40
Never underestimate the stupidity of a bureaucrat.

My father had a small container of nerve gas in his laboratory - when there was a government inventory of the labs, the brilliant people demanded that he open the container so they could check if there was actually anything in there.