Crossing the Red Line — 12 World Powers That Used Chemical Weapons Since the First World War

“The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1992 achieved a near-universal rejection of poison gas.” FOLLOWING THE introduction of chemical weapons during in the First World War, global opinion has largely condemned the use of poison gas….

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Poison Gas — The Seven Most Feared Chemical Weapons of WWI

“I wish those people who talk about going on with this war whatever it costs could see the soldiers suffering from mustard gas poisoning.”  Vera Brittain, First World War nurse   “The use in war of…

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Foreshadows — How Earlier Conflicts Predicted the Horrors of WW1

“Many of the battlefield advances that would become so closely associated with the War to End All Wars were actually foreshadowed in earlier conflicts.” WHEN WAR ERUPTED IN EUROPE in 1914, many expected a short…

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InfoGraphic — The 3,000-Year History of BioChem Warfare

This infographic comes to us from Jasmine Henriques of the career website SecurityDegreeHub.com. In it, she tracks the nearly 3,000-year history of chemical and biological warfare from the ancients’ use of sulphur and weaponized animal…

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