I found instructions on how to make nerve gas. Is it possible to be real? [closed]








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I just happened to find instructions how to make nerve gas. I found it on the Deep web. And since I know next to nothing about chemistry, I'm gonna ask here:


**Is it possible to make nerve gas according to the instructions below? And if it is, how hard is it and how hard it is to acquire ingredients?**


It just boggles me that something like this would be available, even on the Deep web. It's like complete instructions to make nuclear bomb, except plutonium is harder to come by, right?


Thanks for answering and [here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SBJgV.png)'s the link to the image, because it's pretty big and comprehensive.




Some nerve gases are very simple chemicals so it is likely that the instructions are real.


This, however, isn't the point. They are very hard to make without killing yourself in the process and acquiring the ingredients is often very hard as governments restrict the supply and monitor uses very carefully. Even research scientists in approved facilities may not be allowed access to the key ingredients (I've had this for legitimate uses while doing real research).


Even if they ingredients are obtainable, the expertise to handle the products safely are not and almost nobody is likely to be able to apply the recipes safely. A similar situation exists for conventional and nuclear explosives. The recipes are available (e.g. for nitroglycerine or a simple uranium nuclear bomb). Both require both large, expensive facilities to avoid self-destruction or death by radiation. So the apparently simple recipes are useless unless you are major industrial enterprise or a government. 


We're safe, despite the recipes.


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