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Chem Warfare

It was not until the early 1930's that German

chemists observed that organo-phosphorus

compounds could be poisonous. In 1934, Dr

Gerhard Schrader, a chemist at IG Farben, was

given the task of developing a pesticide. Two

years later a phosphorus compound with

extremely high toxicity was produced for the first

time. According to contemporary regulations,

discoveries with military implications had to be

reported to the military authorities, which was also

done with Schrader's discovery. This phosphorus

compound, given the name tabun, was the first of

the substances later referred to as nerve agents. A

factory for production of the new CW agent was

built and a total of 12 000 tonnes of tabun were

produced during the years 1942-1945. At the end

of the war the Allies seized large quantities of this

nerve agent. Up to the end of the war, Schrader

and his co-workers synthesized about 2 000 new

organo-phosphorus compounds, including sarin

(1938). The third......

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