Background and Work

After it was discovered that DDT was losing its effectiveness to debilitate lice, chemical companies rushed to develop new [organophosphate pesticides]. Ghosh worked at Britain's {Imperial Chemical Industries] and in 1952 he synthesized a compound with sulfer and nitrogen (Tucker, 2006). The company marked it under the trade name Amiton until its side-effects became obvious. It was pulled from the market and the British chemical weapons division Porton Down and developed it as Chemical Weapons agent Sarin.

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References

Tucker, Jonathon. War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare From World War I to Al-Qaeda. Pantheon Books, 2006.