But the most infamous - and deadliest - was mustard gas, in reality an oily vapour ... author of A History of Chemical and Biological Weapons. Kamikaze survivors share stories of sacrifice ...

Ignoring the Geneva Protocol, which it signed seven years earlier, Italy used chemical weapons with devastating effect. Most effective was mustard gas dropped in bombs or sprayed from airplanes.

U.N. weapons experts have said Iraq may have stockpiled more than 600 metric tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, VX and sarin. Some 25,000 rockets and 15,000 artillery shells with ...

on 5 November 2015 Mustard gas was used during summer fighting among armed groups in Syria, the global chemical weapons watchdog said on Thursday, while hardline fighters seized a key town from ...

40,000 metric tons of chemical weapons, including 15,000 metric tons of toxic agents (mainly mustard gas); half a million metric tons of conventional weapons (sea mines, bombs, grenades ...

The Army officially deactivated the Pueblo Chemical Depot Thursday. It's been an Army asset for more than 80 years.

As the Obama administration mulls a military response to punish Syria for allegedly using poison gas to kill hundreds ... when it came to the use of chemical weapons. Near the end of Iraq's ...

The Valley, an 87-acre (0.3-sq-km) site at Rhydymwyn, Flintshire, was the major centre of manufacture and storage of bulk chemical weapons, such as mustard gas. It was also involved with atomic ...

The much more apparent horrors of chemical warfare, employing toxins such as mustard gas, led to the Geneva ... own paths in developing biological weapons. Bioweapons programs in the Soviet ...

Iran marks Sacred Defense Week these days, which commemorates the memory of the martyrs and veterans who sacrificed their ...

For instance, chlorine, used for water purification, can also be a precursor for chemical weapons like nerve agents or mustard gas. Biological Agents: Pathogens and toxins used in medical research ...