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Yea, 2 sites. One is 2 missiles, other is a bunch of 50 gallon drums. I THINK the missiles were under the cement and barrels were in a warehouse.

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Yahoo currently has a report that the substance found has been determined to be a pesticide,not a chemica/biological agent.
The early chemical weapons grew out of research by scientists looking for new ways to kill pests with fumigants. Not surprisingly, they learned that certain materials were harmful. When WWI came along, many countries employed chemists to adapt the chemicals to battlefield use and to develop new chemical weapons.

One of the chemical agents is believed to be sarin, which is used in pesticides in low levels. Sarin is a nerve agent, like many of the toxins used in pesticides. Another of the chemicals is believed to be tabun, which was developed in Germany as a pesticide in the mid-1930's. Both, however, can be used as a chemical weapon.

The presence of lewisite is more disturbing. Although it is true that INORGANIC arsenics have been used in pesticides, lewisite is an ORGANIC arsenic that was developed specifically for trench warfare in WWI. It was never deployed in WWI, though. A basic pesticide production facility can make lewisite.
 

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