How much of a chemical would it take to dose the entire country for mind control, perhaps as an air-launched vapor? We don't know what the chemical would be (or what temperature it burns at), so we'll assume it has a similar level of human biological psychoactivity as LSD.
LSD has threshold dosing of 20 micrograms. Assume the dosing period is 1 day. As an absolute lower bound, we multiply the dose by the U.S. population of 330 million and arrive at a shockingly low 6.6 kilograms total per day for the entire population.
Next we consider blanketing the area of the contiguous U.S. with an aerosol of enough density that a person would inhale the threshold dose over the course of a day.
A human breathes 5 liters per minute or 7.2 cubic meters per day. To achieve the daily dose, we would need a density of 2.8*10^-9 kg/m^3.
The contiguous U.S. is 7.7 million square km, and to create a blanket 2 meters thick (average human height), we need to dose a volume of 15*10^12 cubic meters.
Multiply the density by the volume and get 43,000 kilograms, which is only a plane-load or two.
One tremendous assumption is the conspiracy-theorist mind control substance has the same activity as LSD, one of the most psychoactive compound known. This assumption could cause the final answer to be off by a huge factor -- a thousand.
Another bad assumption is that a blanket 2 meters thick is sufficient. The atmosphere probably homogeneously mixes to much a thicker height.
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