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Since it was Einstein's German mentor that invented GA nerve agent in the first world war from some kind of insecticide concentrate, a kind of bug dope survival spray or lotion to neutralize various inhalant and topical chemical agents ought rightly to be invented as well. With so much work being done on the chemistry of thought transmission there ought to be some way to approach chemical war with a radical prophylaxis of a chemical nature as well-at least one would think.

We imagine the lonely soldier properly suited up and surviving a chemical attack. There may be innumerable post modern methods of compounding subtle viruses and chemical cocktails for dispersion on battlefields in asymmetric war unfair. Such a soldier prepaired against a panoply of weapons vectors would find his mission objectives altered by the attack. Survival would be a multi-diimensional challenge with that of carrying out the conventional mission criteria simultaenously with the chemical remedieis and ongoing prophylaxis that is fellow soldiers were not prepaired for.

Survival through a maelstrom of explosives and anti-human quality insecticides adds complexity to the usual direct and indirect fire weapons complex . Inventions of modern death and horror such as microwave transmitters to field-toast opposition forces bring the possibility iof friendly fire accidental cook-offs to ones own units. The power of governments to make weapons of mass destruction for use on ciuviolian targets is vast although it is terrorist groups and ethnic purge revolutionaries that use them generally.

Yet one must dress for success in right protective clothing, for then chemical war survival is quite possible. Chemical defense soldiers are a given a live agent tour with exposure to diluted VX and rarely suffer the horrible rabbit nervous death of federal film fame. The trouble with chemical war survival is that the exposure resistance suits are inefficiently designed and let soldiers overheat or become exposed to contact over time. One would think that the problem of designing an effective, practical chemical survival suit should be simple enoough and if manufactured would render chemical attacks ineffective too and perhaps prevent chemical war...prophylaxis is the best way to avoid the herpes like recurrence of blister agent wounds annually from the initial contact.

Traditional war tools of death are still the worst element for soldiers. Explosives, direct and indirect fire weapons are horrible, and I believe

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