Even before these gases were used in war, they created a special kind ... substances," says Jonathan Tucker, author of a history of chemical weapons. Tucker says that established nations also ...

Chemical and biological warfare isn't new. Even in ancient times, war wasn't all swords and longbows. Some examples: Unrestricted use of chemical agents caused 1 million of the 26 million ...

History Detectives travels to Louisiana, Maryland and Pennsylvania to learn more about this important conflict and shed light on the origins of gas warfare.

IT is earnestly to be hoped that every British man of science will take the opportunity of studying this account of chemical warfare prepared by Brig.-Gen. Fries and Major West, of the United ...

While experts believe that Syria has retained some stocks of chemical weapons, their quantities likely have been depleted and ...

Watch the video below to listen to Mr de Bretton-Gordon speak on Agent Orange and the impact of chemical war. And the world's wars have a long history of chemical warfare. The French were among ...

The issue of Russia’s alleged use of chemical weapons in Ukraine was put firmly on the international agenda in May 2024, when ...

The head of Russia's chemical and biological forces, Lt. General Igor Kirillov, was killed in a Moscow bomb blast claimed by ...

Irish photographer Dara McGrath documents British landscapes associated with chemical and biological warfare. His work, Project Cleansweep, takes its name from a 2011 Ministry of Defence report on ...

Reporting to the Security Council on Dec. 5, Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, said Syria's latest declaration to the international chemical weapons monitoring watchdog ...