Via Telegraph.co.uk -
British intelligence tried to recruit the German scientist known as the "father of nerve gas" to make chemical weapons at Porton Down after the Second World War, papers have revealed.
However, the War Office lost interest in Gerhard Schrader, the inventor of tabun and sarin gases, after he said that he would like to work for Britain, but only for peaceful ends.
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In the 1930s, Gerhard Schrader was a German chemist specializing in the discovery of new insecticides, hoping to make progress in the fight against hunger in the world.
Gerhard helped discover Tabun, Sarin, Soman and Cyclosarin. All of which are classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations according to UN Resolution 687, and its production and stockpiling was outlawed by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993.
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