# How Would A Major Global War Be Fought Today?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 30, 2003, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-a-major-global-war-be-fought-today/185313 "2003-06-30T07:38:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-a-major-global-war-be-fought-today/185313/21 "2003-07-03T00:19:18Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \*  
> \*\*It’s not all impossible that nukes _wouldn’t_ be used. The Germans in WW II had enough sarin nerve gas stored up to wipe out several major cities, but Hitler refused to use it. (No doubt the gassing he got in the First World War was a reason behind his unwillingness to use it.) \*\*

While Hitler was quite traumatized by gas attacks, a more practical reason is that England had about 4 times the amount of nerve gas ready to dump on Germany.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-a-major-global-war-be-fought-today/185313/22 "2003-07-03T00:49:11Z")

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> \*Originally posted by SenorBeef \*  
> \*\*While Hitler was quite traumatized by gas attacks, a more practical reason is that England had about 4 times the amount of nerve gas ready to dump on Germany. \*\*

Go back to the pasture, **Beef** -boy! 😛

England had no nerve gas in WW2.

Nerve gas was invented by the Nazis. There were no neurotoxin gasses available outside of Germany.

The UK had old gases, like cyanogen or Mustard Gas, and it had an (completely secret, the Germans knew nothing about it) active offensive biowarfare program, but nerve gas was unknown to the Allies, until the gas supplies were captured at war’s end.

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**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-a-major-global-war-be-fought-today/185313/23 "2003-07-03T02:39:18Z")

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Ah. Well, they had several times the amount of poison gas, in general, then, than the Germans did.

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