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>a single 500 kg bomb with a tabun payload could kill 100,000 people if dispersed over an urban area
>one JU88 could carry six of them
>had stockpiled enough of the three gasses where tens of thousands of these bombs could have been fielded were it prioritized
honestly just astonishing, there was a window in 42-43 before the luftwaffes back was broken where the war could have been decisively ended in at least armistice if hitler wasnt such a pussy about gas and didnt exclusively give a shit about the geneva protocol as opposed to all the other treaties he broke. fully protective chemical suits werent even invented yet so the allies would have had no countermeasures whatsoever and even worse they had no idea the germs even had nerve gas until they were fucking physically standing inside the facilities producing it. churchill threatened retaliation by mustard gasing german cities if the axis did it first but mustard is pussy shit compared to sarin which will kill through the skin and persist for days, and early on before allied air dominance this was a dubious proposal. the germans were nervous because they assumed the allies must have had an organophosphate CW program which is yet another egregious intelligence failure that contributed to the total defeat they received, but its just insane the psychotic plausibility of an alt history where the nazis actually were evil at all cost villains devoid of humanity. people talk about the what if it were deployed in normandy but a chemical blitz on london or chemical shelling the volga would have been far more decisive and just as plausible. the world would look completely different in so many ways.