Iran is believed to have weaponized pharmaceutical agents to kill or incapacitate.These chemical weapons affect a victim's ...

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 ...

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 ...

AN INCREASINGLY desperate Russia has begun deploying a mysterious new gas on the battlefield in Ukraine. The sinister use of ...

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 ...

Pharmaceutical-based agents (PBA) are essentially weaponised drugs that can incapacitate or kill victims depending on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?