: an extremely toxic chemical weapon C4H10FO2P that is used as a lethal nerve gas
called also GB
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Neither the supporters nor the opponents of the bill cited the rare cases — such as the Nampa, Idaho, man sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2019 for making fake sarin gas bomb threats — where the Terrorist Control Act has actually been used in Idaho.
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Daniel Walters, Idaho Statesman, 15 Feb. 2024
Its methodology has been used to support the Syrian Archive’s submission of evidence to investigative and prosecute authorities in Germany, France, and Sweden about the 2013 sarin gas attack on Khan Shaykhun.
—Grant Peck, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2023
The experts also oversaw the physical destruction of labs and production equipment for making more sarin.
—Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
That hasn’t stopped Damascus from using chemical weapons short of sarin in attacks against rebels and civilians.
—Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
The munitions being destroyed in Kentucky are the last of 51,000 M55 rockets with GB nerve agent – a deadly toxin also known as sarin – that have been stored at the depot since the 1940s.
—Andrew Demillo, Thomas Peipert, and Dylan Lovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2023
The United States’ last declared chemical weapon — an aging rocket filled with sarin nerve agent — was destroyed late last week at a Kentucky munitions plant, the Pentagon affirmed Monday, ending a decades-long operation to cull U.S. stocks of deadly toxins.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
The Kentucky storage facility has housed mustard agent and the VX and sarin nerve agents, much of it inside rockets and other projectiles, since the 1940s.
—Andrew Demillo, Thomas Peipert, and Dylan Lovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2023
The munitions being destroyed in Kentucky are the last of 51,000 M55 rockets with sarin, a deadly toxin that is also known as GB nerve agent.
—CBS News, 7 July 2023
Daniel Walters, Idaho Statesman, 15 Feb. 2024
Its methodology has been used to support the Syrian Archive’s submission of evidence to investigative and prosecute authorities in Germany, France, and Sweden about the 2013 sarin gas attack on Khan Shaykhun.
—Grant Peck, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2023
The experts also oversaw the physical destruction of labs and production equipment for making more sarin.
—Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
That hasn’t stopped Damascus from using chemical weapons short of sarin in attacks against rebels and civilians.
—Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
The munitions being destroyed in Kentucky are the last of 51,000 M55 rockets with GB nerve agent – a deadly toxin also known as sarin – that have been stored at the depot since the 1940s.
—Andrew Demillo, Thomas Peipert, and Dylan Lovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2023
The United States’ last declared chemical weapon — an aging rocket filled with sarin nerve agent — was destroyed late last week at a Kentucky munitions plant, the Pentagon affirmed Monday, ending a decades-long operation to cull U.S. stocks of deadly toxins.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
The Kentucky storage facility has housed mustard agent and the VX and sarin nerve agents, much of it inside rockets and other projectiles, since the 1940s.
—Andrew Demillo, Thomas Peipert, and Dylan Lovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2023
The munitions being destroyed in Kentucky are the last of 51,000 M55 rockets with sarin, a deadly toxin that is also known as GB nerve agent.
—CBS News, 7 July 2023
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