From '61 to '68, the US produced enough VX nerve gas to kill everyone on Earth.

[Paradoxical]

Between, 1961 and 1968, the United States produced more than 8,800,000 pounds of VX nerve gas. Enough to kill every human being on the face of the Earth.

Which begs the question, why the fuck did they produce enough nerve gas to kill every human being on Earth?

[old mark]

1. AND, IIRC, some of it is missing and unaccounted for, along with

several US portable nuclear weapons...OOPS!
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/01/27/Missing-nerve-agent-led-to-Dugway-lockdown/UPI-34971296139839/

and;

http://www.defencejournal.com/may99/loose-nukes.htm


mark

[madrchsod]

2. military industrial complex and now we are burning it.

http://news.opb.org/article/637-army-starts-burn-vx-rockets-umatilla/

[bluedave]

3. job security

for the lab

[Turbineguy]

4. Republicans to hand out

gas masks to the rich.

[Marblehead]

5. friendly competition

between nerve gas producers and nuclear bomb makers, they wanted to see who could kill the most people.:shrug: It is insanity.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. In reality there may have been enough if it was administered in a perfect

fashion, in actual use much of it would have gone to waste into the environment. I felt very safe during those years knowing that we had that much nerve gas, did you feel safe too?

[DefenseLawyer]

7. I hate to be the one to tell you this, but the MIC is a racket.

We all recite the Pledge of Allegiance while half of our money is poured into the corporate trough to "protect our way of life". God bless the U.S.A.!

[krispos42]

8. We also produced enough rounds of ammo to kill everybody on earth, too n/t