: an extremely toxic chemical weapon C4H10FO2P that is used as a lethal nerve gas
called also GB
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President Barack Obama made a similar move in 2013, after the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad fired rockets filled with sarin gas at a Damascus suburb and killed more than a thousand civilians.
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David V. Gioe, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
First available in 1957, thalidomide was a product of Chemie Grünenthal, a German drug juggernaut whose leaders included several war criminals, among them an inventor of sarin nerve gas who had been convicted of using slave labor at Auschwitz.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
Neither the supporters nor the opponents of the bill cited the rare cases — such as the Nampa, Idaho, man sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2019 for making fake sarin gas bomb threats — where the Terrorist Control Act has actually been used in Idaho.
—Daniel Walters, Idaho Statesman, 15 Feb. 2024
Its methodology has been used to support the Syrian Archive’s submission of evidence to investigative and prosecute authorities in Germany, France, and Sweden about the 2013 sarin gas attack on Khan Shaykhun.
—Grant Peck, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2023
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David V. Gioe, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
First available in 1957, thalidomide was a product of Chemie Grünenthal, a German drug juggernaut whose leaders included several war criminals, among them an inventor of sarin nerve gas who had been convicted of using slave labor at Auschwitz.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
Neither the supporters nor the opponents of the bill cited the rare cases — such as the Nampa, Idaho, man sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2019 for making fake sarin gas bomb threats — where the Terrorist Control Act has actually been used in Idaho.
—Daniel Walters, Idaho Statesman, 15 Feb. 2024
Its methodology has been used to support the Syrian Archive’s submission of evidence to investigative and prosecute authorities in Germany, France, and Sweden about the 2013 sarin gas attack on Khan Shaykhun.
—Grant Peck, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2023
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“Sarin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sarin. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.
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