“The blast dispersed chemical agents (including VX and Sarin nerve agents and mustard blister agent) across the storage facility and outside. Other Iranian engineers were seriously injured with chemical burns to exposed body parts.”
So they were putting a mustard warhead on the missle but there were containers of VX & Sarin sitting nearby that were damaged by the blast? Sounds a bit improbable - you’d think that agents like VX & Sarin would be secured far away from any activity like this.
And if the nerve agents were in the mix those exposed would suffer something more serious than “chemical burns” - more like “death”.
Just a couple of details that start the needle on the BS meter to quiver a bit.
A single secret facility, possibly/probably stocked with what weapons were shipped from Iraq while the liberals and the UN fought Bush for a year before he invaded.
At the time they arrived, everything was secret, nothing was planned for loading or re-work or research or launching missiles from the storage site. You’d WANT everything in one place.
Move missile warheads in later. Or get them later, and move them to the nerve gas and mustard gas storage area. Again, logical place to store them. (Maybe not a good place to LOAD the warheads (in the same building or even the same room!) but a good place to keep secrets together.
Find out Saddamn is dead, US is winning, Areal is getting uppity - so you try to load weapons PRIOR to 9/11 anniversary! - and do so with the “small” explosives in a mustard gas warhead that disperse the agent into small droplets. (This size explosive would be much less than 15-20 lbs - like a small device inside the mustard gas tank. After all, you want to blow up the tank, disperse the mustard gas liquid into a cloud of particles, not destroy the mustard gas in a large explosion.
Everybody in the room is killed when the warhead or fuze to the dispersal warhead goes off.