Tabun

In experiments, tabun was extremely potent against insects: as little as 5 ppm of tabun killed all the leaf lice he used in his initial experiment.

Another FoI request submitted by campaigners, asking for details of Glyn Rhonwy’s stored Tabun bombs, hit a brick wall.

The most common forms of nerve agent are sarin, tabun and the most potent, VX.

Ambros then warned Hitler that if Germany used tabun, it must face the possibility that the Allies could produce this gas in much larger quantities.

I know that tabun was publicized as early as 1902, that Sarin was patented and that these substances appeared in patents.

In January 1937, Schrader observed the effects of nerve agents on human beings first-hand when a drop of tabun spilled onto a lab bench.

It was found to be more than ten times as potent as tabun.

Many of tabun's chemical precursors were so corrosive that reaction chambers not lined with quartz or silver soon became useless.

The first nerve agent ever synthesised was GA ( tabun ) in 1936.

The Red Army captured a factory producing tabun at Dyhernfurth in early 1945, then dismantled the entire site and took it back to Russia.

To Hitler's disappointment Ambros replied, "I have justified reasons to assume that tabun, too, is known abroad.