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.

Mustard gas, which a watchdog on Friday said the so-called Islamic State group may have manufactured and used in Syria and Iraq, first terrorised battlefields during World War I. The Organisation ...

Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime carried out 98 percent of them, according to the authors, dropping chlorine gas, sarin and sulfur mustard gas on Syrian civilians. "It is clear that the ...

-----While Americans were fighting in World War I, researchers in a secret laboratory on Cleveland's East Side were ...

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 ...

The Rescue Board (Päästeamet) has neutralized corroded metal barrels discovered on Saaremaa several years ago and which were found to contain mustard gas dating back to World War One. The board's ...

Cancel anytime. WASHINGTON • One hundred years ago next month, on July 12, 1917, the Germans dispensed mustard gas for the first time on Belgian battlefields during World War I. Mustard was not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...