Posted on 07/07/2010 5:30:58 PM PDT by C19fan
Thanks for the reply. THat is very interesting...
There’s more to the story.
In the late 1930s the U.S. Army slapped Top Secret on a patent for a chlorinated hydrocarbon. Nazi spies and scientists told Hitler that the USA had discovered nerve gas. Hitler, who had been gassed in WWI, knew that with nerve gas, Allied bombers could kill every German.
After the war, the Top Secret classification was lifted. It was DDT, a similar molecule, which the Army thought was so important.
As an aside, the USA had to restrain Churchill from bombing Germany with anthrax spores to make it almost unhabitable for 100 years. That was AFTER the success at D Day. Guess Churchill REALLY hated Germans.
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