Phosgene gas

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At high enough doses it kills by asphyxiation (suffocating, can't breath). Phosgene, which smells like moldy hay, is also an irritant but six times more deadly than chlorine gas. Phosgene is also a much stealthier weapon: it's colorless, and soldiers did not at first know they had received a fatal dose.