Chemical warfare agents development

These materials are second generation chemical warfare agents developed shortly after World War I. They are moderately difficult to synthesize and disperse. 

German Trilons. Extremely toxic Chemical Warfare Agents developed before WWII but never employed. They included Sarin, Soman, Tabun and probably others. See PATR 2510(1958), p Ger 204-L and GA and GB in Vol 2 of Encycl, p C167-R... 

Currently, the number of countries with the potential to develop, or use, chemical weapons offensively is thought to be into double figures. Some of the countries with known chemical warfare agent development and stockpiling programmes, such as North Korea, Israel and Taiwan, are not signatories to the Chemical Weapons... 

Discovered in the late 1930s in Germany as improved poisonous insecticides, organophosphorus ChEIs were developed as chemical warfare agents (e.g. sarin, soman, and tabun) and were more recently employed in the 1995 terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway system [5]. 

As explained in Chapter 1, the toxicity of natural xenobiotics has exerted a selection pressure upon living organisms since very early in evolutionary history. There is abundant evidence of compounds produced by plants and animals that are toxic to species other than their own and which are nsed as chemical warfare agents (Chapter 1). Also, as we have seen, wild animals can develop resistance mechanisms to the toxic componnds prodnced by plants. In Anstralia, for example, some marsupials have developed resistance to natnrally occnrring toxins produced by the plants upon which they feed (see Chapter 1, Section 1.2.2). 

Ambros emphasized the poison gases because, as he pointed out, "only during the last four months has Farben developed new chemical-warfare agents." His letter to Krauch also suggested that the "chaos," as he had observed it, explained why production was not nearly high enough. 

Karl Wurster Technical director of inorganic factories. Sulphur expert. Assistant to Otto Ambros in development of chemical-warfare agents. 

On Some New Trends in the Development of Potential Chemical Warfare Agents." In... 

This chapter includes four indices the Alphabetical index, the Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) numbers index, the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) numbers index, and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons key (OPCW) numbers index. OPCW numbers are found in the "Handbook on Chemicals, version 2002," Appendix 2 in Declaration Handbook 2002 for the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction. OPCW numbers were developed to provide an easy method for tracking chemical warfare agents and precursors if CAS numbers were not available. 

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