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I had a change of plans. It is easy to understand that materials like chlorine or phosgene, or even mustard agents work because they chemically attack cells, either destroying proteins and lipids, of by corrupting DNA.
Nerve agents work very differently, so this aside may shed some light on how these horrible materials work. [...]
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This will conclude the overview part of chemical weapons. Once again, I focus only on the ones that have been developed and stockpiled by primarily the United States and the Soviet Union.
Most of the information here is about really scary agents, the nerve agents, but there was or is an inventory of [...]
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