Nazi Germany was the first nation to develop and mass production nerve agents as a weapon. However, as with anything to do with Hitler and Nazis, a bunch of ill-informed people have been pronouncing nonsense. Some of it out of ignorance, some from malice.

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First problematic thing- the use of the phrase "Nerve gas". The nerve agents we are talking about are not gases. They are, in fact, liquids. Using the phrase "nerve gas" kind of marks you out as not knowing the basic concepts.

Nerve agents were not used in world war one. Some people seem to thing that the phrase "nerve agent" means the same thing as "chemical weapons". This is not correct. Nerve agents are a specific category of chemical warfare agent.

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Mar 26

75 years ago, much of it this week 75 years ago, 22 members of my extended family were sent off into captivity by the Soviet Union.

21 of the 22 were sent to Siberia. The 22nd was sent to Kazakhstan. The youngest were 5 years old. Some tankie is going to tell me a 5 year old was a Nazi collaborator

Young Romualdas, age 8 at time of "deportation" in "Operation Priboi" never came back.

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Feb 28

Let me tell you a few stories about how stupid this "London has no go zones" has become over the years.

I think it was 2019. I was visiting Arizona, where I grew up. I went to a craft beer place near where I grew up. I ordered a beer and started talking to people.

Some woman, not really the alt-right/far-right type, indeed more of the Sedona crystals and homeopathy hippy dippy variety, asked me where I was from. I told her I was from London.

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Dec 18, 2023

Let me see if I can explain this. Underground bunkers have not been the way to try to survive a US-USSR/Russian nuclear war since the late 1970s.

At some point in the 1970s, Soviet nuclear targeting got better due to satellite reconnaissance. At about the same time that the accuracy on their ICBMs and SLBMs went from Km to m.

This meant several things. You couldn't build a new facility underground and hide it, due to intelligence collection.

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Dan "the Legal Juggernaut" Kaszeta 🇱🇹 🇺🇦

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Oct 26, 2023

This likely disinformation story ruined my evening last night and I'm not going to spread it. It's got a huge amount of problems.

First, it's a clickbait headline that way overstates what the article actually says. Let's start with what the article actually claims.

It's reporting what some groups expect, not some stunning revelation from Washington.

Let's look at the sourcing. OMFG. It's third-hand. Possibly fourth hand.

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Oct 25, 2023

OK. A few days ago, I promised a bit of a thread on alleged chloropicrin incidents in the Russia / Ukraine conflict.

Chloropicrin is a nasty irritant chemical with uses in industry but is broadly speaking both a failed tear gas agent and a failed chemical warfare agent.

There have been numerous instances since mid-2022 wherein various Ukrainian sources have alleged incidents involving chloropicrin use by Russian forces. There have been a few Russian allegations as well.

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