Nerve Gas
Nerve Gas refers to the proper term of “Nerve Agent. ... Although the chemicals are often called Nerve Gas they are liquid at room temperature, and can be spread as aerosols, vapors, or liquids. ... Nerve agents are very much like pesticides in the way they act upon the person infected. ... While all of these are classified as Nerve Agents, all have different characteristics. Sarin is the name used to refer to the nerve agent GB, a member of the G agent family. ... Unlike some nerve agents, the symptoms of Soman may not show for up to 18 hours. ... It is a part of the G agent group of nerve agents. ... Tabun was the first nerve agent to ever be discovered, and one of the weakest, although it is still extremely dangerous. ... It is the most deadly nerve agent ever created. ... “VX is the only significant nerve agent created since World War II”(“VX”, 2003). ... Chemical Warfare has been around for centuries, but the development of nerve agents is something new and interesting. ... Since the discovery of VX in 1949, very few advances have been made in the field of nerve agents. ... Nerve agents have not been used very many times in the world, but the few times they were are a picture of their power. ... and Soviet Union stock piled all kinds of nerve agents and nuclear weapons as a show of power. ... Iraq is the only registered country to ever use a nerve agent in an attack on people. ... Another reported case of nerve agents being released was when The Aum Shinrikyo Cult used Sarin in a Subway in Tokyo.