Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nash-De Camp does use pesticides, Biswell said, including one of the five pesticides targeted by the UFW boycott--methyl bromide--but said workers would not come in contact with the poison...
...similar process produced the even deadlier toxin of botulinum bacteria, but because oxygen kills these germs, they were grown in a fermenter infused with nitrogen. Botulism is a severe kind of food poisoning that causes paralysis and death. The Iraqis also used the castor-bean plant, widely grown in the country, to produce the poison ricin, which kills by altering the body's use of proteins and causing circulatory collapse and heart failure...
...Gallstones? Or some slow-acting poison, slipped in Reno's tomato juice at a Washington steakhouse? Whatever it was, the A-G pulled through and made it to the conference's second day. Just don't be surprised if, after submitting to "observation" at the Estado Mayor Presidencial military hospital, she starts responding "Al who?" to all questions about her upcoming decision...
...stored, the Pentagon will try out prototype weapons designed to "defeat nuclear-biological-chemical threats before they can be used," as a 1995 report phrased it. One penetrating warhead burrows through earth and concrete before detonating; an incendiary warhead burns up biological and chemical agents before they can spew poison into the atmosphere...
...spread into the air with backpack sprayers or even perfume atomizers. The U.N.'s specialists say that 100 lbs. of anthrax bacteria sprayed around a city of 1 million could kill 36,000 people within a week. And Saddam has produced anthrax in large amounts, along with botulinum, a poison that kills by paralyzing the victim, and aflatoxin, a carcinogen...