CIA Director John Brennan has warned that the Daesh may attempt to sell and move chemical weapons they have developed into Western countries. My comment is why bother moving them in when most of them are readily available locally?
It’s accurate to say that sulfer mustard has no commercial value but it has been made in industry by accident and killed. Old munitions are occasionally unearthed or dredged up from the sea causing exposures to the unaware. 
Mustard is a vesicant and also a known carcinogen.
The chart below offers readers a quick reference guide which could be printed off and posted and/or carried at all times. It would be wise to invest in some education to go along with the guide.
I’m not real concerned about a Daesh-wannabe carrying out a successful chemical attack. I do think everyone should be aware of is the daily threat from these chemicals. For example:
Nerve Agents – Organophosphate poison can be found in most any big box store and garden center.
Cyanide – It could be found with your local jeweler, industry setting or as a by product of incomplete combustion in most every structure fire (an average of 357,000 home structure fires per year in the United States).
Ammonia – Found in agriculture settings as a fertilizer, refrigeration systems and a cleaner around the home. It also can be used in the illicit production of methamphetamine.
Phosgene – Used in the manufacturing industry and also a byproduct of combustion in structure fires when plastics, synthetics and foams burn.
Chlorine – Commonly used in water treatment, either commercial systems or home pools. Also a household oops of mixing ammonia and bleach products when cleaning.
Riot Control Agents – Used by most security and law enforcement agencies as part of their force continuum in trying to control a situation. Also available to the general pubic for self-protection. Not a great hazard unless someone has a preexisting upper respiratory disease.
Feel free to contact me for more information or to schedule a class for your organization or community at abetteremergency@gmail.com
Thank you for posting.
yes,i fully agree with you but tell me what are the remedies for human being,when expose from it
There are specific treatment protocols for various products you are exposed to. Did you have a specific agent you were concerned about?
Excelent Sir! I agree 100%, not to mention all of the TICs and TIMs being transported through most towns in the US, on a daily basis.
Don’t forget about simple freon when it combusts it turns into phosgene. Therefore, aside from cyanide gas that is contained in most vehicle fires phosgene can be another undetected hazard. Why would I bring it up? Car fires happen all the time and instead of people leaving or moving upwind. They video. The only time a person should get involved as a bystander is when there is no rescue on scene and its life threat involvement . Then get away upwind from the vehicle as the escape route.
Thank You for sharing this information!
Jan,
Spot on. I’m actually working with a client now to revise a training they have done for years which focused on WMDs, expanding it to not only involve these common chemicals, but to acknowledge that they pose more of a threat than WMDs do. Aside from nuclear concern during the Cold War, we’ve been focused on WMDs since the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici act of 1996. While a great deal of preparedness efforts, especially grants for equipment and training, made their way out to public safety agencies, the reality (and good fortune) was that the vast majority of those efforts could also be applied to more common hazmats, better preparing jurisdictions for the ‘average’ chlorine spill than for a VX attack.
We still need to keep both sides of this in mind, though. While it is certainly less likely that a terrorist organization will use some type of weaponized agent instead of a more readily available substance, first responders must ALWAYS consider that any hazmat could have been initiated by a criminal act and is not just the hazmat ‘accident’ they have dealt with in the past.
Thanks for posting.
TR