[limpet chicken]

Wasn't it tabun the nazis had, but were too afraid of retaliation in kind to actually use? I recall reading something along the lines of that Hitler might have won the war if he had used the new nerve agents he had developed on us.

Oh well, at least my german would be improved..

[enahs]

Wasn't it tabun the nazis had, but were too afraid of retaliation in kind to actually use? I recall reading something along the lines of that Hitler might have won the war if he had used the new nerve agents he had developed on us.

I doubt he would have won. The US had the atomic bomb, or was extremely close. If Hitler did start using chemical warfare I have no doubt we would have just used Atomic Bombs on every major city/German outpost in a matter of days and nearly whiped out the German 'race'.


Physics trumps chemistry, in that particular case!

[Sam (NG)]

Interestingly, the Germans made Sarin in the 30s as a pesticide.

VX was invented by british scientists as pesticide as well, but they had an "oh shi..." moment and decided that it was a bad idea, then traded the formula to the US as a chemical weapon in exchange for nuclear technology.

[mir]

I'm having a hard time finding resources for the views of chemists and scientists and their perspectives on chemical warfare and chemical weapons.  Anyone have any advice?

Tried googling for Leif Sydnes? He's a chemist at my institute, member of IUPAC (president actually for a time ago I think). He got some sensable ideas and comments around chemical warfare.