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The MDMA Cook Who Tried To Commit Genocide

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

We Have Too Much Saren

After World War II, the US and the Soviet Union embarked on a secret arms race to build more varied stockpiles of chemical weapons. VX nerve gas is probably the most famous of these. It's three times as toxic as Saren when inhaled and a thousand times as toxic when absorbed through the skin. "I just threw my hands up and I was like, just Jesus. Like we have too much. Let's just make some more"

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