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of course, be underestimated. Quite apart from the political issues involved there are difficult technical problems as well. The manufacture of poison gases does not require process technologies very different from those employed for the production of a wide range of modern chemicals. A large number of the basic feedstock as well as the intermediates required for weapons are also used for making essential chemical-based products. Moreover, several intermediates such as phosgene of MIC can themselves be used as poison gases.