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to enter the confined space of the inlet.

The enemy replied with something like Exocet cruise missiles before it was struck in an orange ball of flame. We left our dugouts fortified with layers of dirt and debris overhead as fast as possible.. Driving a light hover-sled in mission oriented protective posture chemical suits was better for evading the inevitable concentration of fire than walking. Most of us would make it. Crispy critters abounded on the way, infrared devices enfiladed hidden 'snow bunnies' in ambush points...

Civilians are lucky in the non-combatant sector of the continent. Some had ankles broken from the ground-snapping blast of a treaty violating rogue nuke that missed the urban center and landed fairly harmlessly beyond the mountain range, but none had to stay suited up inn a charcoal suit to stay alive in the toxic gas cloud that would evaporate as the day warmed up. It is lucky for us it wasn't a thermal inversion such as occurs in a stagnant fog when the chemicals can stay around for days. As the company exited on a counter reverse running opposite the opfor flankers we had only mustard gas-phosgene to contend with besides the blister agent left behind by directed flying bombs from friendly aircraft some miles away covering our retreat and counter-cyclical attack.With luck the wind would shift and return the enemy's chemicals downrange onto his pursuers and beach assailants.'

That sprayed on insecticide is a cousin of concentrated evil-the chemical war agent. With the loosening of the rules of war by terrorists in recent years, logically one can expect a chemical or biological war attack on the flimsy urban office kill zones seemingly built for analytical engineers of terrorism to spring mouse trap assaults on dwellers of the office spaces with silent, colorless death. Fortunately the government protects the people against public debt and unforeseen avenues of terror assault equally well.

Anthrax of course is not a chemical war agent-it is a bio-toxin and a member of a deadlier set of implements of mass death. Biological is beyond the range of this title, yet before we move on the horrible prospects for human extinction engineered by recombinant d.n.a. research should be noted...

Chemical warfare in Soviet military doctrine, was I believe, am anticipated normal accompaniment for infantry and armored cavalry advance in the hypothetical third world war. Binary nerve agents were to be delivered by artillery shells upon opposition forces

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