Word: lethality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...specialists, and a chemical-defense company is assigned to every line regiment. Using bombs, artillery shells, mortars, multiple-rocket launchers, air-delivered sprays or even land mines, the Soviets can attack with phosgene, mustard gas, hydrogen cyanide, nerve agents, botulin and a variety of lethal viruses...
...maintaining the current U.S. stock of war chemicals. Among them are 888 Weteye gravity bombs containing a nerve agent; last week the Pentagon announced that it will continue storing the weapons at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver despite protests from residents of the area who fear potentially lethal leaks. The Army has been seeking funds for a $170 million plant to manufacture artillery shells containing two chemicals that are harmless when separate but become hazardous when mixed in a shell or bomb after it is fired or released. This so-called binary method would make it safe to store...
...agree with Drs. Curran and Cass-cells [Feb. 4] that for physicians to be involved in administering lethal injections in cases of capital punishment "would constitute a cruel and unusual breach of medical ethics." The Hippocratic oath-already eroded by legalized abortion -would be further undercut, and the physician's historic mission as healer would again be compromised by such a death-dealing task...
Methadone, currently the most popular treatment among heroin addicts, produces "positive subjective effects" but can induce physical dependence and lead to a lethal overdose, the report said. Naltrexone, although less addictive and dangerous, does not duplicate the emotional effects of heroin, it continued...
...Great Sell-Off" story on gold [Jan. 14] was lethal. Now that the undertakers' gold-mining activities are out in the open, the survivors are in a good position to negotiate funeral services based on a review of the deceased's dental work. William D. Lewis Albuquerque