Why nerve gas really isnt as deadly as you think! (Patreon)

This is a video I’ve wanted to make ever since people like Powell and Blair took to the stage and told us of the horrors of chemical weapons that could be deployed against the UK in less than 45 minutes from Iraq. Cos when you realize chemical weapons deployed against a city are only useful when its DEAD still, which of course is almost never the case in one of the windiest countries in Europe, the idea that a few hundred kg of nerve agent becomes kinda moot. The more so when you realize that if its dead still, you close your windows, and you are good for hours, maybe days. 

Chemical weapons have also historically been almost as much of a liability for the attackers as the defender. If you shell the enemy with chlorine, and the wind changes, its your troops that get it! Hell in most of the chlorine attacks the chemical that killed most of the defenders was lead, as they got out of the trenches to run away they got shot. If the enemy gets information that you are stockpiling for a chemical weapon attack (which was typically 20 tons in a ww1 attack), they shell you like crazy, because then all the chemical weapons are ruptured on your side of the line and so on. Further, for most chemical weapons, get the right sort of mask and you are completely immune. Its MUCH harder to become immune to bullets like this!

When you do a comparison of guns versus nerve agents as force amplifiers its quite interesting.

If I give a terrorist a gun with 100 bullets, he will typically kill about as many people as a bottle with 10kg of nerve agent, even though the nerve agent can in principal kill 500 000 people! 

LOTTA people didn’t like that conclusion, but if you look at the data, that’s about the correct relative observed deadliness of guns versus nerve agent.