Who Me
Malodorant chemical weapon
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Who, Me? was a top secret, sulfurous, non-lethal chemical weapon developed by MIT-graduate Ernest Crocker while working in the Research and Development Branch (R&D) of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II, to be used by the French Resistance against German officers.[1][2] Who, Me? smelled strongly of fecal matter, and was issued in pocket atomizers intended to be unobtrusively sprayed on a German officer, humiliating him and, by extension, demoralizing the occupying German forces.[3]
The experiment was very short-lived, however. Who, Me? had a high concentration of extremely volatile sulfur compounds that were very difficult to control: the person who did the spraying would end up smelling as bad as the one targeted.[3][4] The product passed handling tests in 1944 and 600 tubes with rubber tubing caps were manufactured, but the war ended before they could be used.[1]
