Sphere: Related ContentWHAT IT IS: A nerve agent, sarin is a liquid that evaporates quickly.
WHAT IT DOES: Sarin causes convulsions, paralysis and asphyxiation. The Aum Shinrikyo cult used sarin in attacks on in the Tokyo subway system in 1995 that killed 12 people.
EARLIER LINKS TO IRAQ: Iraq first told U.N. inspectors it had made 812 tons of sarin, then said it had made 790 tons. Iraq also produced binary weapons: bombs carrying two separate chemicals that when combined in an explosion, produce sarin. Iraq acknowledged making thousands of rockets, artillery shells and bombs containing sarin and used the chemical during its war with Iran in the 1980s and is believed to have used it against Kurdish Iraqi civilians.
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