Why is VX and other similar agents banned, but nukes somehow

Cuz nukes go boom and vs gas doesn't

>>33102983
B/c a nuke will kill before the person has tme to react, and gas allows for a slow and painful death.

>>33102983
Because it's harder to make nukes, so the powers at be can keep other countries out of their club

>>33102983
Nukes were made by an intentional assembly of the greatest minds of the time with the goal of making a nuke.

VX was made accidentally by a single chemist trying to make pesticide.

It takes work and extreme difficulty to make a nuke, making it easy to keep tabs on who has them and to limit production.

VX could be made by a team of competent chemists given some rather easy to get stuff, and a test of the stuff can't be measured a hemisphere away or seen from space.

>>33102983

It's because nukes are a way more effective weapon than VX.

If you pay attention to history, you'll notice that all of the "banned" weapons are of dubious effectiveness.

>>33102983
Because the US likes nukes.

>>33102983
Nukes don't need to be banned.

>>33103084

Why?

>>33103090
Because they won't be used, and having them helps prevent conventional war between major powers.

Chemical weapons do actually get used because anybody can get them, and they just make any war that happens worse.

reminder that Aum Shinrikyo manufactured VX and used them in assassination/murder attacks in a similar manner as with Kim Jong Nam

I don't think Aum did it before anyone says that, but it is interesting

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>>33103062
>VX could be made by a team of competent chemists given some rather easy to get stuff, and a test of the stuff can't be measured a hemisphere away or seen from space.
terrorists with VX gas fucking WHEN?

>>33103257
already
Aum Shinrikyo used it in assassination attacks and used Sarin in the Tokyo subway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo

>>33103004
>>33103062
This.

>>33102983
Nukes aren't that bad because if a nation uses them they're going to blow their load targeting silos in nowhereville, dome airbases, and C&C centers. The whole end of the world thing is a meme.

Something like VX or a weaponized plague is way more dangerous.

>>33103257
Like, 1987?
>there have been 34 confirmed uses of weaponized nerve agents in terror attacks since the end of Vietnam
And thats not counting Saddam gassing the Kurds, since while it had all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack it was committed by a uniformed military with the explicit consent of the government.

>>33103074

>Crossbow, cluster bombs, landmines.
>Not effective
Wtf are you talking about?

>>33103414
You're right. Anon is a retard.

Geneva considers cruel and unusual weapons and things with a lasting effect.

>minefields are still blowing up shit the 3rd world over
>VX would be torturous and seep into the land
>cluster munitions have a 9 in 10 chance of going off, leaving a ton of shit for the little jihad kids to play with

>>33103414

None of those things are banned. Are you retarded?

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>>33103173
>Because they won't be used

Let me guess, you're literally 12 years old.

>>33103242
No that was Sarin.

>>33104262
>not same guy
>not understanding MAD

>>33104344
MAD isn't a thing anymore bud its all about NUTS

>>33104344
>not same guy

I quoted one person. You.

>>33104443
Actually, you quoted me.

>>33105042

Yes, you.

>>33105059
But I'm not >>33104344

>>33102983
few things
>nukes are hard to make, therefore easy to keep tabs on
pretty easy to tell who can and can't into nukes since they're a bitch to make, unlike other chemical/dirty bomb weapons
>big countries like nukes
when the world powers like nukes, they make them legal
>the argument can be made that nukes are more humane than the BC side of NBC weapons
this passes the human rights council
>no fucking way we're gonna give the sand people chemical shit

>>33105065

No, I'm not >>33104344

>>33105123
Okay, I'm not either.

>>33105151

Neither am I.

>>33105176
Good we got that cleared up.

>>33103376
>The whole end of the world thing is a meme.
Stop posting at once.

>>33103257
>>33103284
>>33103377
but like, if it's relatively easy to make, how are there only 34 deaths? I mean, I'd say "10 dead after nerve gas attack" gets more people to pay attention to your terrorist attack than "10 dead after mass shooting" and where mass shooters are caught or killed, a nerve gas producer could go unibomber and do upwards of 20 attacks before being routed out. Is it just an ugly mix of; harder than bomb making. less directed than shooting, and less potent as high explosives?

Man, sarin is a hell of a gas.

Is it the same as VX?

>>33105284
>how are there only 34 deaths?

>On the morning of 20 March 1995, Aum members released sarin in a coordinated attack on five trains in the Tokyo subway system, killing 13 commuters, seriously injuring 54 and affecting 980 more. Some estimates claim as many as 6,000 people were injured by the sarin. It is difficult to obtain exact numbers since many victims are reluctant to come forward.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo#Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack_and_related_incidents

>>33105318
No, Sarin is also called GB and is LESS lethal than VX. to kill someone with VX, take a penny, and look at Lincoln eye. A DROP of that size will kill the fuck out of you.

Chemical weapons are of debatable efficiency compared to nukes.
The US and the UK stopped their chem programs because nukes were more seen as more effective.
The soviets kept theirs going out of paranoia.