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...While the others contain GB, a colorless and almost odorless gas that can kill within minutes, it holds ten pounds of VX, a far more potent agent. The container was marked with an X so it would receive special handling. But the Army had all the boxes painted silver to reduce the heating effect of the sun, inadvertently obliterating the X-and the identity of the more lethal...
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...
...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 hear that gases...
...Aquarium was enjoyable but perhaps a little too balmy, langorous, limped, odorless, visible, and spun into circles with glass sides. Perhaps I felt it was like pouring oil on the oil of the problems I carried in with me. Perhaps leaving clamorous, febrile Harvard Square to go to the slow and unguent Aquarium seemed like treading through Louisiana in the earliest morning, interrupting the scudding smokes of the rousing heat and resolute dry plants, with a newspaper tucked implacably, disharmoniously under arm. There should be a sign: "Leave your newspapers at the door. Don't soil the flowers with their...
Deidre fed them while Alyosha completed his devotions, did his ablutions and anointed his body. He returned to them in an ancient brocade robe with a feather boa collar. Merilee sniffed odorless peace in this place of places, and Sam inhaled some too. In a rush Merilee knew it was right and they should come here. Alyosha massaged her throbbing toe, did his subtle ministrations to reduce the pain and told Merilee of a duty she had to perform. Young Stefan was staying behind when Alyosha and Deidre left to find the Tribe in Oaxaca and the boy would need...