The recent poisoning of Russian opposition figure and critic Alexei Navalny on August 20th, 2020 with a Soviet-era Novichok nerve agent reminded the world of the use of chemical agents, especially nerve agents to eliminate individual targets
or for mass destruction. Nerve agents are a class of organophosphorus compounds. Soman, Sarin, Tabun, Cyclosarin, VX are
a few examples of nerve agents. Nerve agents affect a person by disrupting the mechanism by which nerve signals are passed in
the body.