The most widely used, mustard gas, could kill by blistering ... place until the war was over.) But even in World War One there were those who argued gas was no worse than other weapons.

Many of the poison gases used in WW1 caused temporary and even permanent ... graphically sums up the ordinary soldier's loathing of poison gas. But mustard gas was just as dangerous to those ...

On 30 June Winston Churchill wrote in a memo: “Supposing lodgements were effected on our coast, there could be no better points for application of mustard [gas] than these beaches and lodgements.” ...

Roughly 4,000 of them received high levels of full-body exposure to mustard gas or lewisite, another toxic agent. U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., issued a report on Tuesday, May 31, 2016 ...

A hundred years ago the German army became the first to use chemical weapons in World War One. Remnants can still ... inhaled a small amount of mustard gas. "I leaned the projectile against ...

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — A mysterious substance, containing mustard gas, is causing a temporary ... researched and tested weapons during the World War One era. It was known as the American University ...

Europe fell silent today to honour the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele, one of the bloodiest battles of World War One and the first in which mustard gas was used effectively as a weapon.

On June 2, 1918, during Germany’s spring offensive offensive on the Western Front, a French unit pulling back to more defensible ground encountered a newly arrived company of Marines marching ...

Poison gas was one of the most hated and feared weapons during World War One. But it proved just as ... soldier's loathing of poison gas. But mustard gas was just as dangerous to those ...