Word: sarin
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...stuff will dissipate; not too windy, or the gases will disperse or possibly blow back onto the attacker. Of course, Saddam will seek to maximize the conditions, probably by using poisons late at night or early in the morning, when the temperatures are cooler. Because nerve gases like Sarin and Tabun disperse within minutes or, if enhanced with oil thickeners, within hours, Saddam is expected to lob these agents close to the front lines. He is likely to aim persistent toxins like mustard gas, which linger for days, deeper into allied ranks...
...Dallas-based Occidental Chemical Corp. -- are taking the high moral ground against the U.S. Government by refusing to sell an ingredient necessary to produce a poison gas. The chemical is thionyl chloride, which is used in pesticides and plastics, but is also needed by the Army to make sarin, a lethal nerve agent...
...TABUN, SARIN AND SOMAN is not a law partnership of three other worldly legal professionals; they are, in fact, the three most common chemical warfare agents, left over from the Second World War, that turn up unexpectedly in Germany every so often. In the United States, we don't have to live with that kind of unpleasant surprise. However, despite the fact that our weapons are stockpiled chemicals as opposed to strewn and forgotten remnants of a war, safety precautions and detoxification procedures must be developed...
Modern chemical weapons are known as nerve gases or nerve agents. They are chemically related to certain pesticides but are far more potent. The first was discovered in Germany in 1936 during research on insecticides, and the military production of that gas, sarin, began almost immediately...
...recent months, the nature of the arcane arsenal's components has gradually been revealed. In the chemical-warfare category, one of the most lethal gases is Sarin (GB), which in heavy vapor doses attacks the victim's nervous system and reduces him to a convulsive mass before death occurs. Fifteen years ago, the commanding officer of the Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal estimated that a single drop of the nerve gas in liquid form on the back of a man's hand could kill him in 30 seconds. Sarin has been improved since then. The Army...