"Palme D'Or" for Mike Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11&

[kandrathe]

Well, it's not like they drove into Jordan with barrels of "Deep Woods Off". :)

Here is an interesting site; I'm not sure why with all the paranoia about terrorism this knowledge is still available on the web.

Nerve Agent: VX

SELECTED PRECURSORS
Diethyl methylphosphonite
Diisopropylamine
Diisopropylaminoethyl chloride
O-Ethyl O-2-diisopropylaminoethyl methylphosphonite (code designation QL)
O-Ethyl methylphosphonothioic acid (also known as EMPTA)
Ethyl hydrogen methylphosphonite
Methylphosphonous dichloride (also known as SW)
Methylphosphonous difluoride
Methylphosphonothioic dichloride (also known as SWS)
Phosphorus pentasulfide
Phosphorus trichloride
Sulfur

COMMENTS
Binary weapons in which VX is formed at the time of use have been developed. One component in the binary is O-ethyl O-2-diisopropylaminoethyl methylphosphonite (Code QL; CAS Registry Number 57856-11-8) and the other is a source of sulfur. Sulfur sources used include materials identified by the codes NE, which is sulfur (CAS Registry Number 10544-50-0) to which an anticaking material (a silica aerogel) has been added, and NM, a mixture of dimethylpolysulfides and sulfur.

So, I hope you are not a terrorist, because I just aided and abetted you. :) Anyone with a few college level courses in chemistry could master some of these.

A cursory search for insecticide providers...
Or here...

So, yes. Hard to control, but I think import/export controls to track it to legitimate uses. I shocked my 9th grade chemistry teacher one day when I described in detail how with the chemicals and apparatus in our high school lab I could make nitroglycerin. I always wanted to try that, but never did.