Had the wind blown the other way they could have offed the whole Salt Lake City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_(nerve_agent)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_sheep_incident#Incident
So I was reading the wiki article about "The Stand" and found this a few clicks away.
Now every single bullshit claim about "X brown-country-leader using gas bioweapons against their civilians" is far far richer
Also this, "oh oopsie we developed a nervous gas for the nazis, we were deff trying to make insecticides" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schrader
I remember, back in the Army, during a Combat Lifesaver class the medics going through the book and doing the checklist about NBC warfare stuff.
After all the "box checking" lectures were done, the medics low key told us that's it wasn't a bad idea to keep one round in the pocket of your NBC gear jacket, "just in case".
Even a mild level of exposure to some of these agents cant even be treated AFAIK. Like theres only so much antidote (generally atropine) they can give you when your nerve endings are just completely saturated in the stuff. And because theyre so potent you have to be completely ensconced in protective gear, a simple gas mask wont help when its being absorbed by your skin.
On the plus side, usually the stuff that can be absorbed dermal stops being a problem as soon as it stops being a liquid.
On the minus side, never figured out if stuff that dried could be reactivated if it got wet again.
Well, at least they are honest.