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Allied intelligence confirmed that Nazi Germany was developing “vengeance” weapons, including the V-2 long-range rocket, at Peenemünde on the Baltic Sea.
World War I “colored everything that came before and shadowed everything that followed.” The assassinations, which Austria-Hungary blamed on Serbia, led to an ultimatum being delivered to the Serbian ...
The U.S. has imposed new sanctions on Sudan following allegations that Khartoum’s military used chlorine gas during its war ...
Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president who serves as deputy head of Putin’s Security Council, fired back: “I only know of one REALLY BAD thing — WWIII ... sees as glorification of Ukraine’s World ...
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 ...
In 1914 a chemist called Fritz Haber offered his knowledge to the German Army. He soon began experimenting with chlorine gas to be used in trench warfare. Hegseth announces he’s ending Pentagon ...
The chemical reaction created chlorine gas, infamously used as a weapon during the First World War. The odourless gas irritates the respiratory system and can cause severe burns or even death.
In the gallery above, peruse some of the striking photos taken by Albert Kahn's team during World War I. And below, learn more about Kahn's mission to create a "photographic inventory of the surface ...
Important events of 1915, the second year of the First World War, including the first German Zeppelin raid on England, the Gallipoli Campaign and the Battle of Loos. 4 Feb The Germans declare a ...
The gas "is heavier than air and could pose a threat to nearby buildings" if leaked, and while plants generally are designed to be able to contain smaller leaks, massive leaks from the one-ton ...
On April 7, 2018, at least one helicopter of the Syrian army’s elite Tiger Forces unit “dropped two yellow cylinders containing toxic chlorine gas on two apartment buildings in a civilian ...