• the tendency of the Weteye bomb's aluminum casing and liquid nerve agent to interact and explode made disposal of the weapon difficult?
• the M34 cluster bomb was the first major U.S. chemical weapon designed to deliver sarin nerve agent?
• in 1967, the M139 bomblet (interior pictured) was tested in Hawaii using live Sarin nerve agent?

Facts on topics related to Nerve agent

Sarin

• in 1967, the M139 bomblet (interior pictured) was tested in Hawaii using live Sarin nerve agent?
• of the over 4,000 U.S. chemical munitions found to be leaking chemical agents in 2002, more than 2,000 were Sarin-containing M55 rockets?
• the sarin-filled M125 bomblet was a sub-munition in the M34 cluster bomb and four American missile systems?
• the M34 cluster bomb was the first major U.S. chemical weapon designed to deliver sarin nerve agent?

Chemical warfare

• during the interwar period chief of the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service Amos Fries viewed chemical disarmament as a Communist plot?
• in 1953, the U.S. Army used human subjects to test decontamination methods for chemical and biological agents as part of Operation Top Hat?
• the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (pictured) destroyed more than 400,000 American chemical munitions from 1990 to 2000?

3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate

• the M43 cluster bomb, designed to hold three stacks of 19 BZ-containing M138 bomblets, was unattractive to military planners in part because paranoia and mania were common symptoms of casualties?