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Germany nerve agent development

However, the Japan-China conflict seems to have gone almost unnoticed in the Western press, and it was after the Italy-Ethiopian War that the possibility of a chemical war in Europe became the primary concern of both the British and US Army s Chemical Warfare Services. Consequently, they studied the chemical warfare capabilities of both Germany and Italy, but, as will be seen, intelligence completely missed the German development of nerve agents. [Pg.51]

Following WWI, work in Germany progressed on the development of organophosphorus insecticides, leading to identification of a new a class of compounds of extreme toxicity, the nerve agents. This toxicity, and their rapid action, led... [Pg.6]

Soman was synthesized in 1944 by Richard Kuhn of Germany, again in a search for insecticides.6 Small amounts were produced, but development had not proceeded far by the end of the war. The nerve agent VX was first synthesized by an industrial concern in the United Kingdom in the early 1950s6 and was given to the United States for military development. [Pg.131]

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