Fun story... VX nerve agent was discovered and originally introduced as a pesticide.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_(nerve_agent)
In 1975 the Iraqi ministry of agriculture negotiated with a U.S. company, Pfaudler, for a contract to build a pesticide production plant. The deal eventually fell through because Pfaudler did not understand why the Iraqis insisted on manufacturing Amiton instead of some safer alternative.