| When we hear about chemical disasters we | | | | enemies. In 1320 BC the Hittites infested their |
| immediately think of Chernobyl. And they would | | | | opponents the Arzawans with deadly tularemia. |
| be right to do so. Chernobyl nuclear disaster is the | | | | They sent donkeys infected with the disease and |
| most serious man-made disaster in living history | | | | transmitting the plague via ticks and flies. A witch |
| that still haunts many today. The consequences | | | | named Chrysame who was an expert in ancient |
| following the Ukrainian catastrophe translated into | | | | pharmacology used drugs to cause temporary |
| serious bans on commissioning nuclear power | | | | insanity in the enemy, during the Greek |
| plants and in the case of the United States even | | | | colonization of Ionia in about 1000 BC. According |
| into pushing a thriving nuclear power industry into | | | | to Polyaenus, she fed a bull with a medicinal herb |
| Chapter 11. Chernobyl soon became the strongest | | | | that would excite madness and then presented it |
| argument of the opponents of nuclear power in | | | | as a present to her enemies. |
| the debate on renewable. Few know, however | | | | But the masters of biological warfare were the |
| that what happened there could have easily been | | | | Chinese who in the 10th century BC came with |
| avoided if the then soviet central government in | | | | the so called soul-hunting fog which contained |
| Moscow would have at least made the accident | | | | arsenic or the five-league fog slow-burning |
| public and would have taken a few necessary | | | | gunpowder to which a variety of ingredients, |
| precautionary steps. | | | | including the excrement of wolves, was added to |
| Only at 9 pm, after the neighboring Swedish | | | | produce an irritating smoke. |
| warned them with a petition filed at the | | | | It goes without saying that one needs to prepare |
| International Atomic Energy Authority, did the | | | | for a disaster. Disaster relief shelters would be |
| officials in Moscow five-sentence statement | | | | one way of doing it. Meanwhile taking a few |
| informing on the world`s worst disaster. | | | | lessons in getting yourself ready for a disaster |
| Fewer still are aware that chemical disaster | | | | would not come amiss: from making a first aid kit |
| started ages before with our ancestors in | | | | to taking vital documents and knowing how to |
| Antiquity using biological weapons to eliminate their | | | | evacuate. |