Ricin is just about the easiest, and at the same time, most toxic poison that a criminal can
make. Less than a milligram (1/1,000 of a gram) injected or inhaled will kill a person several
times over. For individual killings, it has the advantage of being undetectable in toxicology
scans since the poison is a catalyst the starts a chain reaction in the body, and is destroyed
before the symptoms begin to show.
With properly sized and dispersed dry particles, ricin is at least 10x more toxic than the most
potent nerve gas. A 1% water solution atomized with a small explosive burster has the same
effectiveness as sarin nerve gas. The only disadvantage ricin has is the time it takes for the
victims to die is about 1 – 2 weeks. So you won’t have the quick tactical effect of nerve gas. But
this can also be good in that, using a covert dissemination, the criminal has time to escape
before the attack is detected.
The information presented below is from a US Patent #3,060,165
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