Sarin

Sarin (GB) [(CH3)2CHO]CH3P(O)F is a organophosorous nerve agent and is one of the G-Series of nerve agents. It is highly toxic and is said to be 500 times higher in toxicity than cyanide.

The production & strorage of sarin is outlawed under the Chemical Weapon Convention, & is a Schedule 1 substance.

The G-Agents

History
The first of the G-Agents was founded in 1936. This was tabun (GA). The start of G-Series was due to German Scientists attempting to make stronger pesticides & insecticdies. The chemical formula was first sent to the German Army Weapons Office in 1937. A year after the formula for Tabun was sent, the nerve agent Sarin was found in 1938. The formula which was submited a year later to the Weapons Office again.

After the Second World War, the USA started to manufacture pure sarin in the Rocky Mountians. This was the only G-Agent the USA adopted & fielded as a weapon, mainly a binary chemical weapon, in which the precursors (Isopropynol Alcohol & Mythlphosphynol Difloride) are placed in two seperate compartments in the same shell. During flight the precursors mix forming sarin.