Word: sarin
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Despite the terrible threat of chemical and biological terrorism, it has never been very effectively accomplished. One exception was a horrifying event in Tokyo, when a nerve gas called SARIN, an agent originally used by the Nazis, was placed in five subway cars during rush hour, killing 12 and sickening thousands...
...Iraq in December 1998, the world knew what Iraq had. At least four tons of VX gas--a sulfurous compound that is among the most toxic chemical agents--were unaccounted for, as well as an estimated several hundred metric tons of the raw materials required to make sarin and mustard gas. After years of denying that it even had a biological-weapons program, Iraq admitted in 1995 that it had produced 8,500 liters of concentrated anthrax and 19,000 liters of undiluted botulinum toxin. UNSCOM destroyed most of those supplies, but officials believe that Iraq hid four times...
Unlike biological agents, which are living organisms that require proper conditions to survive, chemical weapons such as the nerve gases sarin and VX are relatively easy to acquire and stockpile. Chemicals are difficult to manufacture in sufficient quantities for a large-scale attack, however; more likely are isolated assaults such as the 1995 sarin attack on a Tokyo subway that injured thousands and killed...
PURPOSE: Protect against inhalation of biological agents and some chemicals, including sarin, mustard gas and lewisite...
PURPOSE: To counter poisons like botulism toxin and nerve gases like sarin, tabun...