Word: carbonation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...using top-secret electronic and chemical weapons tested during the Gulf War. Cruise missiles generating devastating electromagnetic fields will knock out power plants and transmission towers as they fly over them, while destroying all data stored in tapes and disks at the targets. Other missiles will release showers of carbon-fiber dust to short out electrical installations. A CIA chemical, sprayed on roads or airfields, will rot tires. And if operatives can get close enough, a new microbe, dropped into fuel tanks of jets, tanks and trucks, will be brought into play to turn the fuel into useless jelly...
Wiles says his major accomplishment in almosttwo years as Cambridge's lab animals commissionerhas been to implement carbon dioxide asphyxiationas the method of euthanasia for small rodents.Before, Wiles says, many researchers were usinganother, less humane method of killing mice andsmall rats...
Capt. Robert Fennessy, who works in theenforcement division of the Massachusetts Societyfor the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA)said he would rather see the carbon dioxidemethod, if only because it is "more aestheticallypleasing...
Stephen B. Ronan '72 of the Cambridge Committeefor Responsible Research says all the research hehas seen supports the use of carbon dioxidechambers instead of cervical dislocation...
Lage says that both the carbon dioxide andcervical dislocation methods are "perfectlyhumane...