2. Chemical Warfare Detection Systems

3. What is Chemical warfare? Aspects of military operations involving the employment of lethal and incapacitating employment of lethal and incapacitating chemical agents

4. Use of Chemical warfare First significant use in World War 1 by Germans against the Allies

5. First attack on the Allies by Germans

6. Effect of the gas

7. Gas masks

8. Gas suit

9. Sarin victim Japan, 1995

10. Cost of Chemical warfare The poor man’s atomic bomb

11. Control of Chemical warfare 1925 Geneva Protocol 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention

12. Challenge for Detection systems Inexpensive Portable Real Time detection Death occurs within 15 minutes for tabun, sarin and somon

13. Invention #1 What? A method and apparatus for real time or near real time detection of nerve agents Broad spectrum bio-detection of nerve agents

14. Invention #1 The Science: The method- Mix protein complexes with colorimetric compounds to detect low concentrations of chemical warfare agents. The detection is achieved by monitoring changes in the optical spectrum of the compound The apparatus- a small badge which can monitor the changes in the optical spectrum

15. Invention #2 What? An alarm system for hand held chemical monitors Science When the monitor senses a chemical agent an electric signal is sent to the indicator which emits an audible alarm.