CB military symbol
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Chemical, biological (CB) — and sometimes radiological — warfare agents were assigned what is termed a military symbol by the U.S. military until the American chemical and biological weapons programs were terminated (in 1990 and 1969, respectively). Military symbols applied to the CB agent fill, and not to the entire weapon. A chemical or biological weapon designation would be, for example, "Aero-14/B", which could be filled with GB, VX, TGB, or with a biological modification kit – OU, NU, UL, etc. A CB weapon is an integrated device of (1) agent, (2) dissemination means, and (3) delivery system.
Military symbols can sometimes reflect the name of where a chemical agent is manufactured. For example, chloropicrin has the symbol PS, which was derived from the British town in which it was manufactured during the First World War: Port Sunlight.[1]
Chemical agents
[edit | edit source]Blood agents
[edit | edit source]- AC – hydrogen cyanide[2]
- CK – cyanogen chloride[3]
- SA – Arsine[4]
Choking agents
[edit | edit source]- BBC – bromobenzyl cyanide
- CL – chlorine
- CG – phosgene[5]
- DP – diphosgene[6]
- KJ – stannic chloride
- NC – 80% chloropicrin, 20% stannic chloride
- PS – chloropicrin
Blister agents
[edit | edit source]- H – mustard gas
- HD – distilled mustard gas[7]
- T – O-Mustard
- Q – sesquimustard
- L – Lewisite[8]
- HL – mustard-lewisite mixture[9]
- HT – mustard-T mixture[10]
- HQ – mustard-Q mixture
- HN – nitrogen mustard[11]
- ED – ethyl dichloroarsine[12]
- MD – methyl dichloroarsine[13]
- PD – phenyl dichloroarsine[14]
- CX – Phosgene oxime[15]
Tear agents
[edit | edit source]- CA – camite
- CN – mace
- CNB – mace-benzene mixture
- CNC – mace-chloroform mixture
- CND
- CNS – mace-chloropicrin-chloroform mixture
- CS – CS gas
- CS1 – micropulverized CS
- CS2 – microencapsulated CS
- CR – CR gas
- CH –
Vomiting agents
[edit | edit source]- DA – diphenylchlorarsine
- DC – diphenylcyanoarsine
- DM – Adamsite
Psycho agents
[edit | edit source]- BZ – 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate[16]
- SN – sernyl (PCP)
- K – lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) [EA 1729]
Nerve agents
[edit | edit source]- GA – tabun [EA1205][17]
- GB – sarin [EA1208][18]
- GB2 – sarin as a binary agent from mixing OPA (isopropyl alcohol+isopropyl amine) + DF [EA5823]
- GD – soman [EA1210][19]
- GF – cyclosarin [EA1212][20]
- GE – ethyl sarin
- GH – O-isopentyl sarin [EA1221]
- GS – S-butyl sarin [EA1255]
- GV – (dimethylaminoethyl phosphorodimethyl amidoylfluoridate) [EA5365]
- VE – VE nerve agent [EA1517]
- VG – Amiton (O,O-diethyl-S-[2-(diethylamino)ethyl] phosphorothioate) [EA1508]
- VM – Edemo [EA1664]
- VS – (O-Ethyl S-2-(diisopropylamino)ethyl ethylphosphonothiolate) [EA1677][21]
- VP – (3-pyridyl 3,3,5-trimethylcyclohexyl methylphosphonate) [EA1511][22]
- VR – VR nerve agent (O-isobutyl S-(2-diethaminoethyl) methylphosphothioate)
- VX – VX nerve agent [EA1701][23]
- TZ – Saxitoxin
Experimental agents
[edit | edit source]Material Testing Program EA (Edgewood Arsenal) numbers:
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- EA 1152 - Diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP)
- EA 1205 - Tabun (GA)
- EA 1208 - Sarin (GB)
- EA 1210 - Soman (GD)
- EA 1212 - Cyclosarin (GF)
- EA 1221 - O-isopentyl sarin
- EA 1255 - S-butyl sarin
- EA 1285 - Tetraethyl pyrophosphate (TEPP)
- EA 1298 - Methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), an analogue and active metabolite of MDMA
- EA 1475 - Methylenedioxymethamphetamine
- EA 1476 - A dimethylheptylpyran variant ("red oil")
- EA 1508 - VG
- EA 1517 - VE
- EA 1653 - LSD in tartrate form[24]
- EA 1664 - Edemo (VM)
- EA 1677 - VS, a "V-series" nerve agent
- EA 1701 - VX
- EA 1729 - LSD in free base form
- EA 2092 - Benactyzine
- EA 2148-A - Phencyclidine (PCP)[25]
- EA 2233 - A dimethylheptylpyran variant
- Eight individual isomers numbered EA-2233-1 through EA-2233-8
- EA 2277 - BZ ("Substance 78" to Soviets)
- EA 3148 - A "V-series" nerve agent, Cyclopentyl S-2-diethylaminoethyl methylphosphonothiolate ("Substance 100A" to Soviets)
- EA 3167 - A BZ variant
- EA 3443 - A BZ variant
- EA 3528 - LSD in maleate form
- EA 3580 - A BZ variant
- EA 3834 - A BZ variant
- EA 5365 - GV
- EA 5823 - Sarin (GB) as a binary agent from mixing OPA (isopropyl alcohol+isopropyl amine) + DF
Biological agents
[edit | edit source]Mycotic biological agents
[edit | edit source]- OC - Coccidioides mycosis
Bacterial biological agents
[edit | edit source]- N - anthrax
- TR - anthrax
- LE - plague
- UL - tularemia (schu S4)
- TT - wet-type UL
- ZZ - dry-type UL
- SR - tularemia
- JT - tularemia (425)
- HO - cholera
- AB - bovine brucellosis
- US - porcine brucellosis
- NX - porcine brucellosis
- AM - caprine brucellosis
- BX - caprine brucellosis
- Y - bacterial dysentery
- LA - Glanders
- HI - Melioidosis
- DK - diphtheria
- TQ - listeriosis
Chlamydial biological agents
[edit | edit source]- SI - psittacosis
Rickettsial biological agents
[edit | edit source]- RI - rocky mountain spotted fever
- UY - rocky mountain spotted fever
- OU - Q fever
- MN - wet-type OU
- NT - dry-type OU
- YE - human typhus
- AV - murine typhus
Viral biological agents
[edit | edit source]- OJ - yellow fever
- UT - yellow fever
- LU - yellow fever
- FA - Rift Valley fever
- NU - Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus
- TD - Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus
- FX - Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus
- ZX - Eastern equine encephalitis virus
- ZL - smallpox
- AN - Japanese B encephalitis
Biological vectors
[edit | edit source]- AP = Aedes aegypti mosquito
Biological toxins
[edit | edit source]- X - botulinum toxin A
- XR - partially purified botulinum toxin A
- W - ricin toxin
- WA - ricin toxin
- UC - staphylococcal enterotoxin B
- PG - staphylococcal enterotoxin B
- TZ - saxitoxin
- SS - saxitoxin
- PP - tetrodotoxin
Others
[edit | edit source]Simulants
[edit | edit source]- MR - molasses residuum
- BG - Bacillus globigii
- BS - Bacillus globigii
- U - Bacillus globigii
- SM - Serratia marcescens
- P - Serratia marcescens
- AF - Aspergillus fumigatus mutant C-2
- EC - Escherichia coli
- BT - Bacillus thuringiensis
- EH - Erwinia herbicola
- FP - fluorescent particle
Radiological agent
[edit | edit source]- RA -
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ FM 3-11.9 Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds, p. II-32.
- ^ FM 3-11.9 Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds, p. II-34.
- ^ FM 3-11.9 Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds, p. II-36.
- ^ FM 3-11.9 Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds, p. II-10.
- ^ FM 3-11.9 Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds, p. II-12.
- ^ FM 3-11.9 Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds, p. II-38.
- ^ FM 3-11.9 Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds, p. II-50 to II-51.
- ^ FM 3-11.9 Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds, p. II-54.
- ^ FM 3-11.9 Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds, p. II-48 to II-49.
- ^ FM 3-11.9 Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds, p. II-41.
- ^ FM 3-11.9 Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds, p. II-59.
- ^ FM 3-11.9 Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds, p. II-60 to II-61.
- ^ FM 3-11.9 Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds, p. II-57.
- ^ FM 3-11.9 Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds, p. II-63.
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- ^ FM 3-11.9 Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds, p. II-15.
- ^ FM 3-11.9 Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds, p. II-18.
- ^ FM 3-11.9 Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds, p. II-21.
- ^ FM 3-11.9 Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds, p. II-24.
- ^ Hoenig, Steven L. (2007), Compendium of Chemical Warfare Agents, Springer, pp 106-109, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ US 3903098
- ^ FM 3-11.9 Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds, p. II-27.
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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