The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is reviewing previously-denied claims from World War II Veterans who participated in full-body testing for mustard gas or Lewisite in the 1940s. VA has ...

As the title implies, the author spends much time on the use of poison gas in the war and the first chapter discusses the entire "problem" of discussing its use. This was both mustard gas bombs and ...

But the most infamous - and deadliest - was mustard gas, in reality an oily vapour first used by the Germans in July 1917, again near Ypres. Known as the “King of Battle Gases”, it acted by ...

These weapons date back to World War II. Nazi Germany produced large amounts of chemical warfare agents, including mustard gas, sarin, and tabun. Though they were rarely used in battle ...