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An oddity of WWII is that Germany had a weapon of mass destruction that it never used, nerve gas. The first of the type was Tabun, invented in 1936. Later in the war, it's relative, Sarin was also invented by the Germans. This class of chemical agents were far more effective than WWI era blistering agents. Yet Germany was deterred from using these weapons due to fear that their enemies had similar nerve agents (they did not), as well as superior methods to deliver greater quantities of less sophisticated chemical weapons on German cities.

But what if nerve agents really were proliferated among the major powers as Germany had feared? If France and Britain had weaponized Tabun before WWII would it lead to a Mutually Assured Destruction balance of terror scenario reminicent of the Cold War?
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