Victims may stop their breathing and convulse, which can lead to death. Nerve agents kill victims with gruesome ... For example, VX resembles a thick oil but dissolves in water (a drop killed ...

blocking nerve signals to muscles to cause death by paralysis. Similarly, the potent nerve agent VX, developed as a chemical weapon by the British military, also asphyxiates its victims by ...

His death sentence was finalized in 2009 ... He was central to the cult's development of chemical weapons, including sarin and VX nerve agents. Those chemicals were used in a series of crimes ...

1970 -- Thirty-nine passengers from a Korean Air aircraft hijacked by North Korea some two months earlier return to South Korea via the truce village of Panmunjom. North Korea still holds 12 crew ...