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WWI Centenary: The first world war saw the birth of modern chemical weapons, with poison gas and mustard gas spreading terror
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 ...
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A brief history of chemical warfare
How long have poisonous weapons been used? For more than 2,000 years. As early as 600 B.C., the Athenians poisoned the wells of the Spartans, who later tried lobbing burning sulfur pitch over the ...
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Dawn of Chemical Warfare
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 ...
Iran has developed fentanyl-based chemical weapons
Iran is believed to have weaponized pharmaceutical agents to kill or incapacitate.These chemical weapons affect a victim's central nervous system.These are especially a problem if Iran supplies them ...
Iran’s Chemical Warfare Tactics: Alleged Fentanyl Supplies To Hamas And Hezbollah
Pharmaceutical-based agents (PBA) are essentially weaponised drugs that can incapacitate or kill victims depending on the ...
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Biological and Chemical Terror History
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 ...
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World War One: Documentaries
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 ...
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World War One: Drama
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 ...
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The US government tests deadly chemical warfare agents in Utah
In fact, it's begun destroying its stockpile of chemical munitions as part of a UN treaty. But it's just one of many strange ... Right in the middle of World War II. Clip: The decisive battle ...
Kyiv Independent is 3 years old. Here’s a list of our consequential stories throughout the years
On Nov. 11, 2021, a group of young journalists in Ukraine fired for defending their editorial independence decided to launch ...
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World War One: Documentaries
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 ...
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World War One
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?