[scholar]

Back in the mid '80's, over half my town of New Lenox, Il was ordered to be evacuated due to a chemical leak from derailed railroad cars.

The amount and type of toxic elements going down the rails and our highways would make us all run for cover if we knew about even a small portion of it.

[Cliff Dweller]

The neutralized nerve agent would be typically much safer than most chemicals currently transported.

VX Nerve Agent (O-ethyl S-(2-diisopropylaminoethyl) methylphosphonothioate) can be neutralized with ordinary water (approximately 10% volume) and burned in a commercial incinerator without releasing HEAVY METALS to the environment, and once neutralized, there really is NO LONGER any chemical agent.

By the way it is not "nerve gas", it is a liquid.