Chemical weapons in World War I - Wikipedia
WEBThe most frequently used chemicals during World War I were tear-inducing irritants rather than fatal or disabling poison. During World War I, the French Army was the first to employ tear gas, using 26 mm grenades filled with ethyl bromoacetate in August 1914.
A Brief History of Chemical War - Science History Institute
WEBMay 12, 2015 · Phosgene was responsible for 85% of chemical-weapons fatalities during World War I. Mustard gas, a potent blistering agent, was dubbed King of the Battle Gases. Like phosgene, its effects are not immediate. It has a potent smell; some say it reeks of garlic, gasoline, rubber, or dead horses.
How the Shocking Use of Gas in World War I Led Nations to Ban It
WEBMay 17, 2021 · The Germans were the first to use phosgene in battle, but the Allies made it their primary chemical weapon later in the war. Mustard gas was an entirely new kind of killer chemical.
World War I Unleashed Chemical Weapons and Changed Modern Warfare
WEBApr 6, 2017 · One hundred years ago today (April 6), the United States declared war on Germany and entered into World War I (WWI), the global conflict that initiated the first widespread use of chemical...
Chemical weapon | History, Facts, Types, & Effects | Britannica
WEBIn modern warfare, chemical weapons were first used in World War I (1914–18), during which gas warfare inflicted more than one million of the casualties suffered by combatants in that conflict and killed an estimated 90,000.
The horrifying history of gas warfare - Encyclopedia Britannica
WEBBefore World War I, all the major European powers signed a pact promising not to put poison gas in projectiles and fire them at each other. But as the supposedly short war dragged on, both sides started experimenting with poison gases.
First Usage of Poison Gas | National WWI Museum and Memorial
WEBThis was the first effective use of poison gas on the Western Front and the debut of Germany’s newest weapon in its chemical arsenal, chlorine gas, which irritated the lung tissue causing a choking effect that could cause death.
Chemical weapons - Alpha History
WEBThe horrors of gas warfare caused public indignation, both during and after World War I. In 1925 a Geneva convention was signed outlawing the use of chemical weapons. Adolf Hitler, who had himself been a victim of mustard gas in 1918, indignantly refused to deploy poison gas during World War II.
Fritz Haber’s Experiments in Life and Death | Smithsonian
WEBJun 6, 2012 · For his efforts directing a team of scientists on the front lines in World War I, he would become known as the father of chemical warfare.
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Chemical Weapons
WEBAug 7, 2018 · During its invasion of China during World War II, Japan dropped mustard gas and other chemical-weapons bombs on Chinese soldiers and civilians, killing at least 2,000 and injuring 35,000, according to archival research in both countries. (This, combined with Germany's widespread use of gas in its genocide of European Jewry, should put to bed ...