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While most everyone agrees nerve gas and chemical warfare is terrible, somebody is manufacturing it. Who makes it?
Anyone with a garage and a car to get to the hardware store. Bae has mentioned a few times that his training was detailed enough to show him the basics (or maybe more) of what goes into this kind of thing. I'll let him enumerate further as I do not have that training, but I don't believe the manufacture of such chemicals requires anything terribly advanced.
I imagine the us military - probably the army - use to make and stock piles all sorts of chemical and biological weapons along with their nuclear weapons. I imagine most other countries have both the capability and resources to do the same. It doesn't take much of any NBC weapons-grade agents to inflict a huge amount of damage and death. It is illegal to make or store chemical weapons under international law but several countries, including the us, still have stores.. And as Gregg said, even a small rebel group with a little chemical knowledge and the abi,ity to get sulplies can whip something up in their garage.
The US military does have nerve gas weapons in their armory, many of which are so dated that they need to be taken apart, and there are labs doing studies on how to take them apart safely (friend of mine is a scientist who works for a place that is running those studies). So, I can imagine that they have other weapons as well.
In addition, the Russians like to provide weapons and the like to the Syrians, so that could be another pathway. And of course, there is the whole "DIY" process assuming a country has the income for it -- and I suppose they might. So there you go.
Who make atomic bombs?....
Who make atomic bombs?.... Good point! My sister works for a big aero space company that is also a big military defense contractor. They make many things for both the civilian world as well as the military. And while they don't make chemical weapons, they do make many other weapons. So maybe the same company that makes Viagra will contract with a government to make chemicals (if that was legal that is..which it isn't).
Who make atomic bombs?....
I could tell you, but then, well, you know....
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Ha HA bae! My sister does security for a SCIF building (a specially made and secured building for classified work and meetings) and while she can't actually talk about her work, she does joke that the government actually will deny any programs or anything that goes on in her building (what happens in a SCIF, stays in a SCIF :-)!!). Ah government contractors, gotta love em. But I still like the idea of weaponized Viagra. Puts a new twist on the old war slogan "Make Love not War"!
Ha HA bae! My sister does security for a SCIF building (a specially made and secured building for classified work and meetings) and while she can't actually talk about her work,...
Oh, the odd places I've ended up :-)
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Similair - her SCIF is just a "tad" bigger and holds a few thousand people :-) :-) A whole giant classified building certified by the DOD, CIA, NSA, etc... all sorts of high tech anti-spook stuff. Very cool. I love all that tech stuff myself.
While most everyone agrees nerve gas and chemical warfare is terrible, somebody is manufacturing it. Who makes it?
Here's something I found on wikipedia that might clarify why Syria has and manufactures chemical weapons:
"Syria is one of only 7 states which are not party to the Chemical Weapons Convention. However, it is party to the 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibiting the use of chemical weapons in war but has nothing to say about production, storage or transfer.
Syrian officials have stated that they feel it appropriate to have some deterrent against Israel's similarly non-admitted nuclear weapons program when questioned about the topic, but only on July 23, 2012, the Syrian government acknowledged for the first time that it had chemical weapons.
Independent assessments indicate that Syrian production could be up to a combined total of a few hundred tons of chemical agent per year. Syria reportedly manufactures Sarin, Tabun, VX, and mustard gas types of chemical weapons.
Syrian chemical weapons production facilities have been identified by Western nonproliferation experts at approximately 5 sites, plus one suspected weapons base:
A Syrian soldier aims an AK-47 assault rifle wearing a Soviet-made, model ShMS nuclear–biological–chemical warfare mask.Al Safir (Scud missile base)
Cerin
Hama
Homs
Latakia
Palmyra
In July 2007, a Syrian arms depot exploded, killing at least 15 Syrians. Jane's Defence Weekly, a U.S. magazine reporting on military and corporate affairs, believed that the explosion happened when Iranian and Syrian military personnel attempted to fit a Scud missile with a mustard gas warhead. Syria stated that the blast was accidental and not chemical related.
On July 13, 2012, the Syrian government moved its stockpile to an undisclosed location.
In September 2012, information emerged that the Syrian military had begun chemical weapons tests and was reinforcing and resupplying a base housing these weapons located east of Aleppo in August.
On March 19, 2013, news emerged from Syria indicating the first use of chemical weapons since the beginning of the Syrian uprising.
On August 21, 2013, testimony and photographic evidence emerged from Syria indicating a large-scale chemical weapons attack on Ghouta, a populated urban center."
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