: an extremely toxic chemical weapon C4H10FO2P that is used as a lethal nerve gas
called also GB
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The experts also oversaw the physical destruction of labs and production equipment for making more sarin.
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Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
That hasn’t stopped Damascus from using chemical weapons short of sarin in attacks against rebels and civilians.
—Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
The munitions being destroyed in Kentucky are the last of 51,000 M55 rockets with GB nerve agent – a deadly toxin also known as sarin – that have been stored at the depot since the 1940s.
—Andrew Demillo, Thomas Peipert, and Dylan Lovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2023
The United States’ last declared chemical weapon — an aging rocket filled with sarin nerve agent — was destroyed late last week at a Kentucky munitions plant, the Pentagon affirmed Monday, ending a decades-long operation to cull U.S. stocks of deadly toxins.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
The Kentucky storage facility has housed mustard agent and the VX and sarin nerve agents, much of it inside rockets and other projectiles, since the 1940s.
—Andrew Demillo, Thomas Peipert, and Dylan Lovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2023
The munitions being destroyed in Kentucky are the last of 51,000 M55 rockets with sarin, a deadly toxin that is also known as GB nerve agent.
—CBS News, 7 July 2023
This dynamic played out most starkly in Syria, in the aftermath of the August 2013 sarin gas attack in Ghouta.
—Elliot Ackerman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
The munitions being destroyed in Kentucky are the last of 51,000 M55 rockets with GB nerve agent — a deadly toxin also known as sarin — that have been stored at the depot since the 1940s.
—Andrew Demillo, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
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Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
That hasn’t stopped Damascus from using chemical weapons short of sarin in attacks against rebels and civilians.
—Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
The munitions being destroyed in Kentucky are the last of 51,000 M55 rockets with GB nerve agent – a deadly toxin also known as sarin – that have been stored at the depot since the 1940s.
—Andrew Demillo, Thomas Peipert, and Dylan Lovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2023
The United States’ last declared chemical weapon — an aging rocket filled with sarin nerve agent — was destroyed late last week at a Kentucky munitions plant, the Pentagon affirmed Monday, ending a decades-long operation to cull U.S. stocks of deadly toxins.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
The Kentucky storage facility has housed mustard agent and the VX and sarin nerve agents, much of it inside rockets and other projectiles, since the 1940s.
—Andrew Demillo, Thomas Peipert, and Dylan Lovan, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2023
The munitions being destroyed in Kentucky are the last of 51,000 M55 rockets with sarin, a deadly toxin that is also known as GB nerve agent.
—CBS News, 7 July 2023
This dynamic played out most starkly in Syria, in the aftermath of the August 2013 sarin gas attack in Ghouta.
—Elliot Ackerman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
The munitions being destroyed in Kentucky are the last of 51,000 M55 rockets with GB nerve agent — a deadly toxin also known as sarin — that have been stored at the depot since the 1940s.
—Andrew Demillo, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
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German
First Known Use
1951, in the meaning defined above
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