But the fact that the kids got injections despite the absence of a nerve gas attack does not sit well with critics who don't view Israel's tiny and military trained population as a good comparison group to U.S. civilians.
Reading Fisher's counsel on how to achieve this feat, I was reminded of my time in the Marine Corps when the medic explained the uses of the caked tube of atropine kept in a back pocket of our cartridge belts as a remedy for a nerve gas attack.
The US government had previous funded MIT to do research into how carbon nanotubes could be used to detect nerve toxins including Sarin following a terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway which killed 12 people in 1995.