Using thioacetone as a non lethal tactical weapon
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I was reading about thioacetone as smelling so bad that an entire town was overcome by extreme nausea, panic, unconsciousness, and was forced to evacuate just by spilling a few drops by accident. It sticks to clothes and smells supernaturally terrible.
It sounds like it would be an amazing weapon. A missile that nebulizes thioacetone on impact would basically disable entire cities. You could massively disrupt huge areas with a non lethal, non environmentally damaging weapon. You could cause a military base to essentially shutdown and become inoperative. But it doesn't damage any physical damage or directly cause human deaths. A large enough missile with enough thioacetone could probably cause an entire country to be overcome by nausea, panic, and unconsciousness.
It almost sounds like a WMD given that level of disruption would likely cause death and injury on a large scale. Why haven't any militaries pursued this? It sounds like an insanely effective weapon and there are no treaties against non lethal weapons that target human smell.
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