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What has given everyone the jitters is a colorless, almost odorless nerve gas coded GB, able to kill or incapacitate human beings within seconds. It blocks the enzyme the body uses to destroy one of its own chemical nerve-signal transmitters that becomes poisonous after serving its function. This affects control of the nervous system and ultimately causes the body to poison itself. This week, if all goes according to plan, the Army will begin shipping 12,540 rockets armed with GB from depots in Anniston, Ala., and Blue Grass, Ky., to Sunny Point arsenal in North Carolina. There...
...GB and VX are colorless, odorless nerve gases that can kill or incapacitate humans within seconds. Last year President Nixon included such gases in his ban on the U.S.'s "first use" of chemical and biological weapons. But he is obviously determined to retain stockpiles big enough to counter the Russians, who are well armed with the weapons. In fact, thousands of tons of nerve gas, packed in bombs, rockets or artillery shells, are still secretly stockpiled at U.S. bases round the globe. And that fact alone is bound to cause an uproar whenever civilians living near a base...
...recent months, the nature of the arcane arsenal's components has gradually been revealed. In the chemical-warfare category, one of the most lethal gases is Sarin (GB), which in heavy vapor doses attacks the victim's nervous system and reduces him to a convulsive mass before death occurs. Fifteen years ago, the commanding officer of the Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal estimated that a single drop of the nerve gas in liquid form on the back of a man's hand could kill him in 30 seconds. Sarin has been improved since then. The Army...
...GB Army 5 0 - Dartmouth 5 1 1/2 Navy 4 1 1 Brown 4 4 2 1/2 Cornell 2 2 2 1/2 Princeton 3 4 3 HARVARD 3 5 3 1/2 Columbia 3 5 3 1/2 Penn 2 5 4 Yale...
...GB Eastern Division Philadelphia 55 25 -- Boston 54 26 1 Cincinnati 45 35 9 New York 29 50 24 Western Division Los Angeles 44 34 -- Baltimore 38 42 7 St. Louis 36 48 8 1/2 San Francisco 34 44 10 Detroit...