The first world war saw the ... killed in total during the war, the fear and suffering caused by chemical arms became symbols of a harrowing new era in modern warfare. “I wish those people ...

Canadian soldiers were among the first to witness the horrors of modern warfare as "the war ... when chemical warfare was first introduced to the battlefield. On October 3, 1914, thirty-one ...

Despite one war ... things that World War I was famous and infamous for, and the biggest thing on the latter front were the tactics that allowed it to go on for so long. Trench warfare was ...

Even in ancient times, war wasn't all swords and longbows. Some examples: Unrestricted use of chemical agents caused 1 million ... future use in warfare. Between the two world wars, scientists ...

BBC Documentaries marking the centenary of World War One. BBC One Opening the World ... the first to experience the hell that was trench warfare. Though billed as a ‘white man’s war ...

Chloropicrin was widely used as a chemical warfare agent in World War I, but is no longer authorized for military use, and is ...

Drawing on real stories of World War One soldiers it uses the visual techniques and imagery familiar from modern warfare – POV helmet camera footage, surveillance images and night vision – to ...

“Another five minutes (at the trench contaminated with gas) and the lungs would have collapsed,” Ihor said The era of modern chemical warfare began in World War I when a stalemate in trench ...

Czech explosive experts detonated a World War II-era bomb on Friday at a major chemical plant in the northwestern ... All land within a 1.2 mile radius was cordoned off, and local roadways and ...

A recent study by a Japanese scholar has shed new light on exposing the horrific crimes of human experiments committed by ...

Opening the World War One commemoration season on the BBC and ... were among the first to experience the hell that was trench warfare. Though billed as a ‘white man’s war’, the conflict ...

When World War ... of trench warfare with its rats, disease, mud, constant shelling and shooting and fear of imminent death. What was life like on the front line in World War One?