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@chriskatz2355

2 жыл бұрын

I keep getting closer and closer to each post.....im getting closer

@6stringgunner511

2 жыл бұрын

I always thought my brother did. He had the most foul, sinus burning gas ever leaked upon humanity! He would crop dust the unsuspecting and laugh insanely!!! 😁💨💨💨🥵🤢🤮🤮🥵🤢🤮🤮!!!

Just what I needed on Christmas Eve. Thanks Simon

@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567

2 жыл бұрын

remember, kids on the naughty list get their houses shelled with Tabun

@iamnolegend483

2 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly.

@i-am-evil-morty6710

2 жыл бұрын

Ew Christmas

@A_Casual_NPC

2 жыл бұрын

This isn't even one of Simon's darker channels rofl

@kylarstern7627

2 жыл бұрын

The past is the worst, come live in the future! Its Christmas day in Australia!

Humans: "we've discovered something terrible that can kill and injure hundreds of thousands" Also humans: "let's make it worse"

@fredtaylor9792

2 жыл бұрын

Also humans: this is horrible, let's not make it worse.

@joshuablair252

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, it was nuclear weapons that ended ww2 and created peace throughout the cold war by mutually assured destruction. Chemical weapons are the worst thing though.

@manupontheprecipice6254

2 жыл бұрын

@@fredtaylor9792 Also humans: We’ll use it on our enemies. That will never go bad.

Ah yes, Christmas Eve, the best time to learn about nerve agents

@AnimeShinigami13

2 жыл бұрын

It's a reminder, peace on earth, goodwill toward men. >.< Humans need to care about each other, because the Universe at large does not.

@MandleRoss

2 жыл бұрын

While nowhere near as deadly as VX, VR is a pretty potent nerve agent: Visiting Relatives.

@james87367

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think the team are Christians. Lol. They don't believe in Christmas.

@GazB85

2 жыл бұрын

Naomi, if you lived in Afghanistan and it was Christmas Eve 1979 😉, it'd of been the perfect time to learn about them!

I messed up bad one time using pesticides. The room wasn’t ventilated well. I began coughing so hard I couldn’t catch my breath. It was hell for a good 15 minutes. I was exhausted and in shock by the end of it. I can’t imagine dying like that. 😢

@QuantumRift

2 жыл бұрын

That's how the insects we poison die.

@LannasMissingLink

2 жыл бұрын

I get bouts of this every now and then after having covid, though I'm so glad I didn't get symptoms as bad as my mum's cousin who needs a portable oxygen tank at all times now. You don't realise how important your lungs are till they start acting up...

I've been overwhelmed by chlorine just from opening a bucket of pool chlorine tablets and not airing it out before taking a breath. I cannot even imagine what those soldiers must have felt at massive times what I experienced.

@booradley6832

2 жыл бұрын

If you want to find out, for science or something, pour a gallon of ammonia onto those tablets.

@ksteak27

2 жыл бұрын

@@booradley6832 Just tidy-up your life insurance details first. :)

@karlstetter9512

2 жыл бұрын

Same, I was in first or second grade. I was helping my grandfather with the pool opened the bucket with my head directly over it. Faint ly heard my grandfather yelled no to me but it dropped me. Lol first time I had ever been knocked out. Lmao 🤣

One of my family members was a test subject for nerve agents. His stories are terrifying

@captainhakob814

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like they need to make a you tube channel

@HeretixAevum

2 жыл бұрын

@@captainhakob814 I dunno, I think if you talked about that stuff too publicly you'd end up """""comitting suicide"""""

@floo1465

2 жыл бұрын

@@HeretixAevum suicide by two gunshot wounds to the back of the head?

@Real-Ruby-Red

2 жыл бұрын

Sure he was

@delamovies

2 жыл бұрын

@@LegendLength you are naive

I was trained in the military as a chemical and biological weapons expert. This is a very good and accurate telling. In our training we watched a lot of horrifying videos on the effects of these weapons. It is quite literally the thing nightmares are made of. When I was stationed in South Korea we were told that Kim Jong Il had 6,000 tons of chemical warheads. That was in 2002. I have heard rumors that his son has raised that number to almost 20,000 tons. Easy to make, fairly easy to deploy and terrifyingly powerful. I hate these things.

@BiblicallyAccurateToaster

2 жыл бұрын

That video of Chemical Ali's attack on the Kurdish ppl & the Syrian videos are nightmarish. Hell, even the animal testing videos are god awful. I can't even imagine seeing some of the classified videos you may have been exposed to in training. I worked in a level 4 trauma unit of an Emergency Dept in the DC area & we were setup to be one of several primary units to take in casualties if a Chem/Bio/Nuc attack were to occur. We trained w/ help from Ft Detrick military & also govt officials running regular drills while I was there. I just pray we never see a mass casualty event like we prepped & trained for. I agree, weaponized chem & bio agents are truly the stuff of nightmares

@barquerojuancarlos7253

2 жыл бұрын

What's your opinion of the recent whistleblowers from the OPCW over the use chemical agents in Syria? They condemned the conclusions of the OPCW that Syria used the agents claimed

@maryasuestark5208

2 жыл бұрын

Ah the Kims, those little rascals.

@silverhawkscape2677

2 жыл бұрын

Powerful but not as reliable as a bomb. Which we should be thankful.

@lm7_gio

2 жыл бұрын

Unless the 20.000 tons that you heard are like Shadam's chemicals. You know, the ones that USA used as an excuse to bomb and take over Iraq and then never found evidence of?

When I was in the army, a set of three atropine shots were the norm. We were instructed that after you use one, it was to clipped to the MOPP gear at the chest so that medics would know how many had been used. I never had much faith in it.

My great great grandfather (he was an Irish canadian) was mustard gassed during ww1 while serving in his majesty's canadian armed forces. He survived was hospitalized, recovered, and went on to compleat his service. He survived the war and returned home. Thanks for your service Grampa we will always Remember.

This sure is a perfect topic to get into the holiday spirit!

@moronibragarenzen5899

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah totally im thinking to have some nerve gas with my duck and while i was buying it i got curios to who made it

@stevechance150

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Simon, what were you thinking?!

Macabre though this subject is, thank you fact boi for a Christmas Eve upload. This was a few minutes I gave myself to relax during a busy day.

@delamovies

2 жыл бұрын

Nerve gas is very relaxing indeed

Technically speaking, it is more accurate to describe them as Nerve Agents as the majority are liquids in their natural state. Tabun, Sarin and Soman (the G series) are volatile, non-persistent liquids, meaning they vaporise easily at ambient temperatures, becoming gaseous. VG (aka ICI's pesticide Amiton), VE, VM, VR, and VX (the V series) are non-volatile, persistent liquids that remain in their liquid state and do not readily vaporise at ambient temperatures. The V series are mostly a contact hazard, but can also be an aerosol hazard (i.e. droplets suspended in air). The A or N series (the Newcomers or Novichoks), which include A320, A232, A234, and some others, are mostly liquids (although some later variants are allegedly solids that have to be ground into a very fine powder). A234, in particular is a non-volatile liquid that is mostly a contact or aerosol hazard, as it a persistent liquid (like VX) that does not vaporise at ambient temperatures and remains a liquid. A234 was the Chemical Warfare Agent deployed in the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal. There are also some Carbamates, which are classified as Schedule 1 Nerve Agents, as they also disrupt acetlcholineesterase. I believe these came out of research in the USA, but were not deemed to be militarily as effective as VX. Despite claims to the contrary, it is unconfirmed whether A234 is actually more toxic than VX, because the Russians never produced VX itself but a very close isomer of VX that was not as stable as VX in long-term storage. Regardless, VX remains super-toxic in very small droplets. ALL Nerve Agents are lethal military grade toxicants, regardless whether they are Crude (impure) or Purified. Iraq mostly used impure Tabun in its chemical weapons attacks during the 1980s. The fact it was impure did not effect its ability to inflict mass casualties. However, if a Nerve Agent is purified to more than 95% purity, it lasts longer in long term storage. Impure Nerve Agents degrade more rapidly than purified ones. Tabun was invented as an insecticide by Dr Schrader of I G Farben, until Dr Schrader realised just how lethal it is to humans. Ditto, VG (Amiton) was also invented by ICI as an industrial insecticide, until they realised just how lethal it is to humans. VG was experimented with by scientists at Porton Down, who would eventually synthesize VX based on the original VG insecticide.

@leemichael2154

2 жыл бұрын

A massive homer Simpson neeeeeeeerrrrrrrrdddddd! (Just a joke I appreciate you know your stuff)

@fredtaylor9792

2 жыл бұрын

@@leemichael2154 Beat me to it. Lol

@LannasMissingLink

2 жыл бұрын

You just wrote an entire thesis on a single mistake in the script! Props, im impressed. But no way am I gonna read it. Still, good job

Videos like this should be part of every Jr High student's history class. Quick, to the point, and packed with information. Well done.

@metal4lifewp

2 жыл бұрын

That isn't a bad idea.

I'm so glad somebody explained why re-injections are necessary for nerve agent antidotes. In basic training, it was just "If they keep shaking, hit them again."

Everyone else: merry Christmas! Simon: merry nerve gas!

@RegulareoldNorseBoy

2 жыл бұрын

Well. I know I AM having some nerve gas tomorrow morning after all the xmas food I'm gonna eat tonight ^^

@JaberYesu

2 жыл бұрын

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

Still today, in the US Army, we are trained and evaluated on chemical warfare and atropine style first aid

May we never have “psychopaths” in positions of power, for they’ll do unspeakable things, even to their own.

@shawnnewell4541

2 жыл бұрын

We had one in Trump. May he never get near the White House again.

@Hispanic2A-1776

2 жыл бұрын

We currently have one in the Whitehouse. He's called Brandon.

@turtle2720

2 жыл бұрын

I heard of scientific research on the psychology of politicians. Turned out that politicians are slighty more psychopathic than the ordinary citizen...

@Chris-hx3om

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, well there's the problem. It seems psychopaths are the only ones capable of getting into power.

@thehorriblebright

2 жыл бұрын

I refer to the Vietnam war.

Thanks for this holiday post! Disturbing yes, but still appreciated!! Happy Holidays!

I'm watching this while eating deviled eggs. The chemical warfare is about to commence.

@deathisonlythebeginning5098

2 жыл бұрын

Deviled eggs and potato salad needs tons of mustard.

@jasonwomack4064

2 жыл бұрын

@@deathisonlythebeginning5098 well played, sir. Lol

I was stationed at Redstone Arsenal, AL in the 70's. They had fields of underground bunkers (where cattle were allowed to graze) and an entire mountain blocked off from any recreational use because a tornado had destroyed the records building and no one was sure which poison gas was stored where. Yay, us!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Simon, from the West Coast of Canada.

Made my morning, remembering Swann cells but had forgotten about the synapses in detail. Thanks

Silly as it may be, The Rock is still one of my favorite popcorn action movies.

Your beard is looking stunning my man!! Happy holidays!

@charlotteowens4644

2 жыл бұрын

Needs trim.

It's weird to find out that epi-pens stem from DEADLY NEURO TOXINS

@lemr88

2 жыл бұрын

How? They are pure adrenaline

@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567

2 жыл бұрын

@@lemr88 (re)watch the video

@kareningram6093

2 жыл бұрын

@@lemr88 12:37

@kareningram6093

2 жыл бұрын

Right? Warfare often results in amazing inventions that are used for far better and more peaceful purposes later. Inspiration is a strange thing.

@lemr88

2 жыл бұрын

@@kareningram6093 thank you!

Hey you go Simon! Always enjoy your content man!! Happy Holidays!!🎄🎄🎇🎆

Better living, and killing, through chemistry! And, BTW, the second "c" in cyclosarin is pronounced with the "k" sound.

@savagesarethebest7251

2 жыл бұрын

You mean The voiceless velar plosive

Never tire of your enlightening videos.

Merry Christmas Simon

Cheers. Thank you as always.

Wow Simon, what a subject for Christmas Eve!

This one really cheered me up, thanks Simon!

Stylish assassination. That would get you bonus points in hitman for sure.

MERRY CHRISTMAS Josh! 😻

I love me some Simon documentaries and truths. After the casual Criminalist binge Ive been on, I didn’t think I could take Simon seriously again but yes I can. My hero

Atropine is still common to have all over hospitals, especially in OR or ED settings. We stock them in glass preloaded syringes, usually in a 0.1 mg/mL concentration. If it’s in a specialty OR, we’ll stock 0.4 mg/mL vials in the pyxis but only small quantities. **this is in US hospitals and ORs, in case other countries don’t practice this**

@thesquad-airsoftgamingnerf9643

2 жыл бұрын

Has atropine got any other uses?

@LannasMissingLink

2 жыл бұрын

@@thesquad-airsoftgamingnerf9643 I think I remember hearing it in greys anatomy before so must be

This isn't the best birthday gift I've ever got. Thanks Simon.

that was some powerful emotion in your voice at the end there.

I absolutely love all the rock references! Thank you for this great video.

Great video 👍

I know it;s a bit late, but any chance you could do a quick video of the ‘Christmas Miracle’ during WWI, where both sides stopped fighting and actually had one day of peace?

@padawanmage71

2 жыл бұрын

Loo never mind, i saw you already did!

“This video is sponsored by Brilliant, if you really want to learn something you have to do it” Me watching a video on nerve agents: Ummm

I love how hos personality is seeping into this channel from all his other ones

Merry Christmas TIFO family

Designed to kill insects, it's a insecticide. So nerve agents are humancides? And on that jolly thought, Happy(?) Holidays?

also the preferred weapon in the Mobile Suit Gundam series, just pump the thing into the oxygen supply system of a space colony and the job is done.

Excellent pronunciations of the acetylcholinesterase and related words. Your pronunciations are not always the best on tough words, but this was great.

Ah yes. Happy Christmas, Simon. You gave us the gift of a gnawing fear in the back of our minds. The best gift of all

I've watched so much Brain Blaze at this point I'm no longer used to Fact Boi being serious

Terrifying topic. Doing this to other human beings is inexcusable. Absolutely inexcusable. Doesn't matter who did what, where or why. Producing this, using this - is one of the worst crimes against humanity. Period. Considering that here in my home country Germany, million citizens have been killed in factory-style mass executions with chemical gas still sends chills down my spine. What can people do to other people?

Hitler lived through a mustard gas attack during ww1 and refused to use chemical weapons firing ww2 because of the agony of those attacks

@iteerrex8166

2 жыл бұрын

What a humanitarian

@lemr88

2 жыл бұрын

@@iteerrex8166 yeah I'm not saying he was. I just find it interesting he thought that chemical weapons were wrong when he used zyklon b to try to wipe out APN entire population

@iteerrex8166

2 жыл бұрын

@@lemr88 I didn’t say you did.

@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu

Жыл бұрын

Hitler also mistakenly believed that the allies had them also (they didn't) and would out-produce Germany

Holiday special episode :-D

Good video 👍

When I said "please pass the mustard", I didn't mean this irritating stuff. -Sausage dealer

Merry Christmas team ❤

I bet Callum is on a watchlist for his work researching for this video...

Valium is rarely used today to stop seizures as there are now more efficient drugs. I remember Valium being used in the mid-“80’s so I don’t know when things changed.

Happy Xmas everyone

Please do an episode on other dangerous chemicals. Especially FOOF.

Have you done one on the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, India and its lasting effects?

Small correction: you said at ~6:40 it causes "dilation of the pupils", the nerve agent *constricts* them not dilates them. The antidote causes dilation. You had it right in the intro to this video. "frightening symptoms including dilation 06:40 of the pupils and shortness of breath"

And so timely I might add. Scary Christmas!

Please cover the psychedelic "BZ" gas. I know a lot about it, however i wish more people knew about this neat substance. By far the scariest non lethal nerve gas I've ever studied.

Someone really loves the holidays. Nerve has Marshal islands Social experiment gone wrong. Don't kill your family today Simon.

Yeah, we were trained to inject Atropine and another I can't remember into the thigh, then attach the injectors to the uniform/MOPP suit. We were told to inject no more than 3 of the pairs. Read the label on a can of Raid, it's VX.

@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu

2 жыл бұрын

it is nothing of the sort, chemically or functionally

Merry Christmas to you too, Simon... Jesus.

The Rock is still a classic and a juggernaut of American culture!

ask my 1st Gulf War veteran all about Sarin nerve agent. He has had a 24/7 migraine since … permanent nerve end damage. VA pays 100% for PTSD. Nothing for nerve gas damage.

@metal4lifewp

2 жыл бұрын

That's pretty fucked up. Bloody va

Something that bears mentioning was that the military 'volunteers' weren't always made aware of what the tests would entail or what was being administered. Horrific stories of men thinking they were contributing to the development of a medicine against the common cold, being splashed by a few droplets of some unknown substance, and ending up squirming on the floor in uncontrollable convulsions and excruciating pain abound.

Simon has been working on his German pronunciation. It’s notably better now than in his earlier videos. 😄

First the numbers, now Nova 6

On the 24th day of Christmas Simon gave to me... Chemical warfare history

8:12 nice cut there…wonder how many times it took to get their name pronunciations right!!!

They used to store a ton of VX just up the road from me in Newport, IN. Pretty much guaranteeing that it is on a Russia nuclear strike list. And since Terre Haute down the highway produced and stores a boatload of ammo, and Indianapolis is a super weak chain in the military since apparently all money for military pay flows through Indy at some point. I'm so fucked lol.

Watching this video just a month after finishing the CNS block in med school 😂

Sooo the antidote for being gassed to death is deadly nightshade and mandrake? This sounds like the drug user explaining that he needed the amphetamine to overpower the opioid overdose

my eyes are burning just thinking about this stuff.

keep that beard growing!!

As someone who tears down nightshade from my parents trees every year, don't mess around with nightshades. Also, did nerve agents help use find antidepressants?

@silkuk8417

2 жыл бұрын

I eat lot of tomatoes 🍅 tbf 😬

Agreed

hidden cameras behind the screen and in the bezel

Our atropine injectors have a second side... it injects 2 pam chloride (Pralidoxime) that counters the atropine

One more feather in your cap with this.

@teshlafreeman4040

2 жыл бұрын

At this point more feather than cap lol

The V series was persistent and more like Mustard gas - but deadlier. If you put the V series into an area it was denied to the enemy but to you as well for a very long period. The G series was very short-acting so put into an area they would kill people at once, but after a few hours or a day, the attacker could move through the area safely.

Of course, SImon Whistler is the Simon mentioned in the kids game Simon says.

You hit them with atropine until the stop showing symptoms but after two we have to keep an idea of how many they have been hit with

They disposed them into oceans...👀

I think Simon works 3 days a week - 1 for meetings, 1 for shooting, 1 for reviewing.

Comercial ends at 1:16

Read about the idea of sticky sarin where the Germans would hosed down the D- Day supply dumps with it . Would have taken weeks to decontaminate the stuff slowing up the evasion for who knows how long .

best ad ever before video: DM experience smell

Also: mustard gas is what set of modern chemotherapy and what many compounds used are derived from.

Atropine in Jimsonweed hmm? Gotta remember that if there's ever a chemical attack or spill in my neighborhood. Pretty sure there's a huge clump of dead jimsonweed with it's fruits about two blocks up the street in front of the hardware store. got to double check my field guide. Edit: no it wasn't. Jimsonweed is a member of the Datura family, gorgeous flowers, spiky fruits, about knee high, and it's a potent hallucinogen. XD >.< the funny thing is I've seen this plant near the community garden. We were going to save some of the seeds until we identified it but I think I must have identified the plant and forgotten because I haven't seen it again.

@thedoublek4816

2 жыл бұрын

Regarding the "hallucinogen" part: basically all plants of the datura family are not only very potent, but at the same time incredibly dangerous, since there is only a very thin line separating the hallucinogenic dosage from the toxic / lethal dosage. Given that the content of the active substances varies from plant to plant, they are extremely difficult to handle for recreational purposes. Also, while the term "hallucinogen" is correct, members of the datura family are no classical psychedelics like Mushrooms or LSD, they are full-blown délirants instead (with the effects leading to a delirious "trip" resembling the extreme side effects of a heavy alcohol withdrawal etc). Even experienced users of hallucinogenic substances (I'm definitely not one of them) strongly advise against trying. It's way too risky and can quickly end in a hospital / ER visit in the best case, psychological and physical damage or even death in the worst case. However, there is also Diphenhydramine (known as Benadryl in the US), an over-the-counter sleeping aid and anti-nausea-medicine, which also features delirant effects and hallucinations being indistinguishable from reality (mostly manifesting in the form of fake spiders and bugs) when used in higher, non-therapeutic doses, albeit many people don't recommend it and the experience is apparently perceived as not really positive or comfortable. It's still safer than datura and similar plants. By the way, Datura is known in Germany under the name "Stechapfel", which roughly translates to "spikey apple" or "prickling apple".

Simon Whistler or MR Ballen- only one way to find out. FIIIIGGGHHTTTT!

Merry Chemical Christmas I guess!

Here to represent BrainBlaze

@cleverusername9369

2 жыл бұрын

You legend

How many times have you made this video, Blaze Boy?

Is this a rerelease video?? I feel like I e watched this one before

First heard of VX in the movie "The Rock".