(Tribune News Service) — Their mission nearly accomplished, government contractors have begun layoffs at a Central Kentucky ...

Japan's Unit 731 was once one of the darkest kept secrets in history. The biological and chemical warfare research unit was ...

In the early days of the air war, chemical weapons detection alarms and tests by U.S., Czech, French and British troops indicated the possible presence of nerve agents and other chemical weapons.

An introduction to what chemical weapons are and how they fit within international humanitarian law (IHL). Chemical weapons have been discussed a lot in the news recently, and it is likely that young ...

Knowing that the other side could retaliate in kind, chemical and biological weapons did not come into large-scale use in WWII. But there were horrible exceptions: In 1935, Fascist Italy invaded ...

Narrator: The government needed a large area to test powerful weapons ... chemical sprays and flamethrowers to various antidotes and protective equipment, and even fire-bombing. After World War II ...

The first world war saw the first widespread combat use of modern chemical weapons, starting with the 168 tonnes of chlorine released by the Germans over the trenches near Ypres. Officers hoped ...

Experts estimate that approximately 1.6 million tons of arms were discarded in German waters alone, with the majority being conventional weapons ... millions of World War II munitions that ...