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The Soviet Union and then Russia presented in its stockpiles only two types of the first generation of contained chemical warfare agents, namely the blister agents yperite (agent HD) and lewisite (agent L). The second generation of Russian toxic chemicals include three types of nerve agents (phosphorous containing agent), sarin (agent GB), soman (agent GD) and Russian V-gas.
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Fedorov, L.A. (1997). Plasmachemical Destruction of Chemical Weapons. In: Holm, F.W. (eds) Mobile Alternative Demilitarization Technologies. NATO ASI Series, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5526-7_13
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