There were arguments whether it was Sarin or something else like Tabun. No matter it was a weapon of mass destruction. If it was JIM Jones forcing people to drink Koolaide which wasn’t even Koolaid it was a cheaper form it’s still mass murder. Why should people have to defend their actions to go after the culprits in the first place. When O did nothing they complained when atrocity’s were happening and all we got is we don’t use that word. Now that they do something they complain about that. It’s a side tract. People should be more concerned who the culprit was. Here’s some info on the two.
Here’s the story: In 1936, a German scientist named Gerhard Schrader at Bayer (yes, that Bayer which made aspirin) and later the IG Farben factory (which also produced Zyklon B, the chemical agent used to gas millions of Jews and other “undesirables” to death during the Holocaust), was working on an insecticide designed to disrupt the insect’s nervous system.
Schrader experimented with a class of chemical compounds called organophosphates to kill leaf lice or wooly aphids. He and his assistant had synthesized a compound called tabun when, accidentally, they were exposed to a drop of the colorless liquid which fell onto the lab bench. They became very dizzy and had severe difficulty seeing and breathing. It took them three weeks to recover fully.
Schrader has just discovered the first class of nerve agent known to man. Tabun or GA is the first in the G-series of nerve agents discovered by the “father of nerve gas.”
Immediately, the Nazi government instructed Schrader to change the focus of his research from killing insects to humans. New factories dedicated to the production of tabun were built, and the Nazi stockpiled over 12,000 tons of tabun. In the following years, Schrader refined two more compounds in the G-series, sarin (or GB), soman (GD) and cyclosarin (GF), but the Germans stuck to tabun as their main chemical weapon.
Sarin, which was 500 times more toxic than cyanide, was named in honors of the people who first discovered it: Schrader, Otto Ambros, Rüdiger and Hermann Van der Linde.
It later became the preferred nerve gas by Western governments because of its greater lethality over tabun, cheap production cost, as well as its ease of turning into gas.
What happened to all that nerve gas that the Nazi made? Fortunately, it was never used against Allied troops (more below). In 1945, at the end of World War II, Soviet forces captured the factory that produced tabun and poured the nerve agent into the Oder River.
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/06/The-Curious-Origin-of-Sarin-Nerve-Gas/
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