Nerve agents: what are they and how do they work?

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Nerve agents: what are they and how do they work?

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The Conversation

Nerve gas
Investigators next to a police tent in Salisbury near to where Sergei Skripal was found critically ill. Steve Parsons/PA Wire/PA Images

Simon Cotton, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Birmingham

The former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are in a critical condition in a hospital in Salisbury, UK, following exposure to an unknown ne