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Panic-mongers have spread fantastic stories about gas. We are told that a ton of gas could kill 100,000 people. So it could if they were crowded together without respirators in a closed space. But things don’t happen that way in real life. In May, 1928, a tank containing 11 tons of phosgene, the most poisonous of the non-persis-tent gases, burst in the docks at Hamburg. The gas formed a cloud which rolled over the suburbs of Hamburg and injured people six miles away. But only ten people were killed and 300 taken to hospital, although there was no warning and no respirators. So as my respirator fits, I don’t expect anything worse than blisters, whatever gas is dropped on me.Professor J. B. S. Haldane in the " Daily Herald."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 23, 1 December 1939, Page 35
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