Chemical fall-out
Hundreds of thousands more troops than previously estimated may have been exposed to fallout from the destruction of chemical weapons during the 1991 Gulf war, says a report from the US General Accounting Office. The Department of Defense’s models for dispersal dramatically underestimate plume heights, durations of exposure, and hazard areas, it says. Fallout zones probably covered “most of the areas where US troops and Coalition forces were deployed”.
Pharaoh’s catalogue
The death mask of Tutankhamen may be its most famous exhibit, but the Egyptian Museum in Cairo has just begun a five-year programme to catalogue and restore…
