Chemical weapon in USSR. Loads of information and even more information will never go out, but anyways. A few interesting things:
http://instinnovstudy.org/aletheia/excerpts/sovchemweapons-excerpt.pdfHere you'll find some info about experiments with people, ecology etc.
But one interesting thing is april 28th that is the international day of chemical safety. This day was chosen because of the fire in Novocheboksarsk chemical weapon plant. During the fire, 50 bombs were burned, each carrying quarter of a ton (250kg) of VR gas. 1 ton of VR is enough to kill 100 million people. LD50 through skin is 10mg. Burnt VR gas was enough for all the current population to have LD100 through air several times. We could die and die and die once more, heh
A little more info about that:
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/cbw/jptac008_l94001.htmQuoteNovocheboksarsk can serve as an example of the effect of chemical weapons production on those who had nothing to do with this business, who were not favored with privileges and compensatory payments. Chronic illness of children in this city is already 40 percent (much higher than for Chuvashia as a whole), and the level of abnormal childbirth has reached 88-90 percent, no other serious ecotoxicants being known for the city [60, 85].
Among documented accidents and disasters associated with V-gas production, a special place goes to the fire that occurred on 28 April 1974 [27, 39]. It is indicative that, a month before the fire was reported [39], the publication which reported it had stated that specialists at this plant "had not had a single accident" [88]. According to official data that were not made public until 18 years after the fire, the cause was a short in the power line due to failure to complete some construction work [89-91]. The fire resulted in loss of seal of aircraft bombs filled with "product," and temporary loss of control over the latter. The main thing is the totally incredible fact that unfinished work did not show up until two years after the start of series production of chemical munitions filled with highly toxic V-gas that was extremely hazardous for personnel and residents of the city. Accidents occurred with release of V-gas even after that, for example in 1978.
Transportation of V-gas munitions was extremely hazardous. For 15 years the railroad used for the purpose was the Cheboksary-Kanash branch line that was in "unsatisfactory" condition [92].
