OK, those are probably older than what is at Newport
When I was in ROTC in the mid 80's, part of our duties (for pay) was assisting with guard duties at Newport, at the time they wanted to build an incinerator to get rid of all the VX & other stuff they would never use, the Indy & Terre Haute papers had an editorial campaign against it & it's all still there.
BTW, I can tell if the newsies know what they are talking about based on whether they call VX a nerve agent or a nerve gas, everything at Newport is liquid, skin contact nerve agent
You are absolutely correct. VX is an oily substance and defiantly not a gas.
However, the vapors are extremely toxic, although obviously not as deadly as with direct contact.
While moving the VX bombs from RMA, my job was to operate a computer model and predict the potential casualties if there was a leak. The computer was updated with weather instruments constantly and would provide me a real time display of expected casualties.
If the potential vapor cloud moved over a highly populated area, all movements of the bombs were halted. My job was to call a halt if the computer predicted a danger.
Thankfully, we only had 3 minor leaks and the VX vapors safely dispersed over farm fields that had been previously evacuated.