"Chemicals degrade slowly over time. They may be very potent still."
Does any FReeper know the half-life of Sarin under these circumstances of storage. If this is unclassified knowlege it should be fairly simple to tell if these shells are still lethal or not. (I'm assuming a direct first order decomposition to non-lethal products.)
I saw a chart on the internet not too long ago. I'll see if I can find it again.
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The chemicals are most likely degraded by now but still potent. Like someone said lets store them under the dimocRATS beds.
However 5 years ago they were a heck of a lot more potent than they are today. Go back 10 years and they were really potent at the height of the UN poking around to no avail. The point is Sadam had them and did not turn them over. The degrading issue is just a red herring by the dimocRATS and means nothing. He had WMD's and in quantity.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1653292/posts?page=468#468
Binary sarin shells do not degrade and couls have been fired well within a 45 minute time frame.
How about that, two asinine arguments utterly destroyed!