<sod>  *[[Joseph Goebbels]]
 *[[Alan Turing]]
 *[[Peoples Temple]] [[Jonestown mass suicide|mass suicide]]
Poisoning by cyanide also figures prominently in [[crime fiction]], for example [[Agatha Christie]]'s ''[[Sparkling Cyanide]]''; cyanide is the probable instrument of one murder in ''[[The Big Sleep]]'' by [[Raymond Chandler]].
 
 Cyanides were stockpiled in both the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] and the [[United States]] [[chemical weapon]]s arsenals in the [[1950s]] and [[1960s]]. During the [[Cold War]], the [[Soviet Union]] was thought to be planning to use hydrogen cyanide as a "[[blitzkrieg]]" weapon to clear a path through the opposing front line, knowing that the harmful gas itself would evaporate and allow unprotected access to the captured zone.
 
 <eod> <sod> *[[Joseph Goebbels]]
 *[[Alan Turing]]
 *[[Peoples Temple]] [[Jonestown mass suicide|mass suicide]]
Poisoning by cyanide also figures prominently in [[crime fiction]], for example [[Agatha Christie]]'s ''[[Sparkling Cyanide]]''; cyanide is the instrument of one murder in ''[[The Big Sleep]]'' by [[Raymond Chandler]].
 
 Cyanides were stockpiled in both the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] and the [[United States]] [[chemical weapon]]s arsenals in the [[1950s]] and [[1960s]]. During the [[Cold War]], the [[Soviet Union]] was thought to be planning to use hydrogen cyanide as a "[[blitzkrieg]]" weapon to clear a path through the opposing front line, knowing that the harmful gas itself would evaporate and allow unprotected access to the captured zone.
 
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