[HN Gopher] The Sheep Incident (2008) ___________________________________________________________________ The Sheep Incident (2008) Author : EndXA Score : 38 points Date : 2023-12-05 19:05 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.damninteresting.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.damninteresting.com) | dumpHero2 wrote: | tldr; In 1968, the U.S. Army tested a deadly nerve agent called | VX. The nerve agent killed thousands of sheep grazing near the | testing site. The Army denied responsibility for the deaths. The | article also details other instances of the Army mishandling | dangerous chemicals. | scottyah wrote: | Wow, how horrifying. The more I read about the Nixon/Kissinger | era, the less I wish I had. | | Also of note is the fact that the original compound was used as a | pesticide for years. Pesticides in general give me paranoia as | they try to delicately toe the line between effectively killing | small beings and not causing harm to humans. | VyseofArcadia wrote: | The town I went to school in was the site of a chemical weapons | depot. There was a chemical weapons incinerator there dealing | with the surplus which could not be stored indefinitely. Every | school public building had to have enough pressurized rooms for | occupancy, and we had special sirens for "there's been a nerve | gas leak" and "there's been a mustard gas leak". | | It was, in retrospect, a horrifying way to grow up. Anyway, the | nerve agent they were disposing of was VX. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-12-06 23:00 UTC)