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	Poison gas in World War I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The killing capacity of gas was limited — only 3% of combat deaths were due to gas — however, the proportion of non-fatal casualties was high and gas remained one of the soldiers' greatest fears.
		Gas never reproduced the dramatic success of 22 April 1915; however, it became a standard weapon which, combined with conventional artillery, was used to support most attacks in the later stages of the war.
		Gas shells could be delivered without warning, especially the clear, nearly odourless phosgene — there are numerous accounts of gas shells, landing with a "plop" rather than exploding, being initially dismissed as dud HE or shrapnel shells, giving the gas time to work before the soldiers were alerted and took precautions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Use_of_poison_gas_in_World_War_I (3945 words)

	Encyclopedia: World War I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		World War I, also known as the First World War and (before 1939) the Great War, the War of the Nations, War to End All Wars was a world conflict lasting from August 1914 to the final Armistice (cessation of hostilities) on November 11, 1918.
		The label World War I or First World War did not come into general use until after the outbreak of World War II in 1939; until then, the conflict was commonly known as the Great War (previously referring to the Napoleonic Wars waged a century previously), or simply the World War.
		World War I was fought by the Allied Powers on one side, and the Central Powers on the other, resulting in eventual victory for the Allies.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/World-War-I (2541 words)

	Poison Gas and World War One
		Poison gas was probably the most feared of all weapons in World War One.
		Poison gas was indiscriminate and could be used on the trenches even when no attack was going on.
		Poison gas (chlorine) was used for the first time at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /poison_gas_and_world_war_one.htm (1118 words)

	Chemical warfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		World War I saw the earliest implementation of this technique, when German forces simply opened canisters of chlorine and allowed the wind to carry the gas across enemy lines.
		Sparta wasn't alone in its use of unconventional tactics during these wars: Solon of Athens is said to have used hellebore roots to poison the water in an aqueduct leading from the Pleistrus River around 590 BC during the siege of Cirrha.
		During World War II, chemical warfare was revolutionized by Nazi Germany's accidental discovery of the nerve agents tabun, sarin and soman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poison_gas (6490 words)

	First World War.com - Weapons of War - Poison Gas
		Considered uncivilised prior to World War One, the development and use of poison gas was necessitated by the requirement of wartime armies to find new ways of overcoming the stalemate of unexpected trench warfare.
		Raising Special Gas Companies in the wake of the Germans' April attack (of approximately 1,400 men) operating under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Foulkes, instructions were given to prepare for a gas attack at Loos in September 1915.
		Gas never turned out to be the weapon that turned the tide of the war, as was often predicted.
	www.firstworldwar.com /weaponry/gas.htm (1737 words)

	World War I, The Use of Poison Gas
		World War I, The Use of Poison Gas
		Whatever gas it is, it spreads rapidly and remains close to the ground.
		The effect of the noxious trench gas seems to be slow in wearing away.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/1915/chlorgas.html (846 words)

	poison gas
		However, except for the use of poison gas by the Italians in the war against Ethiopia (1935–36) and by the Japanese against Chinese guerrillas (1937–42), poison gas was not employed in warfare after World War I out of fear of retribution, even though the military powers of the world continued to develop new gases.
		In the Persian Gulf War, the UN troops were equipped with antidotes for nerve gas, protective clothing, and gas masks in case Iraq used poison gas.
		coal gas - coal gas, gas obtained in the destructive distillation of soft coal, as a byproduct in the...
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	Poison Gases
		Poisonous gases were known about for a long time before the First World War but military officers were reluctant to use them as they considered it to be a uncivilized weapon.
		Chlorine gas destroyed the respiratory organs of its victims and this led to a slow death by asphyxiation.
		One disadvantage for the side that launched chlorine gas attacks was that it made the victim cough and therefore limited his intake of the poison.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWgas.htm (2095 words)

	Gas masks in World War One
		Gas masks used in World War One were made as a result of poison gas attacks that took the Allies in the trenches on the Western Front by surprise.
		Early gas masks were crude as would be expected as no-one had thought that poison gas would ever be used in warfare as the mere thought seemed too shocking.
		By now, the mask had an appearance on what we would assume a gas mask to have and its value can be seen in the number of fatalities the British suffered as a result of poison gas - 8,100 - far fewer than the total British deaths of the first day of the Somme.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /gas_masks_in_world_war_one.htm (273 words)

	Gas Attack, 1916 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Gas travels quietly, so you must not lose any time; you generally have about eighteen or twenty seconds in which to adjust your gas helmet.
		German gas is heavier than air and soon fills the trenches and dugouts, where it has been known to lurk for two or three days, until the air is purified by means of large chemical sprayers.
		A gas, or smoke helmet, as it is called, at the best is a vile-smelling thing, and it is not long before one gets a violent headache from wearing it.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /gas.htm (1478 words)

	mustard gas on Encyclopedia.com
		MUSTARD GAS [mustard gas] chemical compound used as a poison gas in World War I. The burning sensation it causes on contact with the skin is similar to that caused by oil from fl mustard seeds.
		Mustard gas was introduced by the Germans in warfare against the British at Ypres, Belgium, in July, 1917, and took a heavy toll of casualties.
		It is dispersed as an aerosol by a bursting shell.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/m1/mustardg.asp (1003 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| Century of biological and chemical weapons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As a sergeant in the Kaiser's army, Adolf Hitler was gassed by British troops in 1918, and the experience may have caused him to refrain from using it as a tactical weapon himself.
		Chemical weapons were used in a further 11 campaigns after World War I, according to the Federation of American Scientists - often delivered from aircraft rather than artillery, thus reducing the fear that it would rebound against those who used it.
		Mustard gas was used by British forces intervening in the Russian Civil War in 1919 and by Soviet forces in China in the 1930s.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1562000/1562534.stm (837 words)

	Trenches on the Web - Armory: Gas Warfare
		The cannister gas mask was developed to protect the soldier from the use of chlorine gas and tearing agents such as xylyl bromide.
		Gas was invented (and very successfully used) as a terror weapon meant to instill confusion and panic among the enemy prior to an offensive.
		Having suffered the agonies of gas first hand, his fear of the weapon would prevent him from deploying it as a tactical weapon on the battlefields of the Second World War.
	www.worldwar1.com /arm006.htm (1180 words)

	WILPF and Chemical Warfare, Introduction
		This attack was the first successful use of poison gas during World War I. The heavy Allied losses gave notice of the power of this new form of warfare.
		Fries said that poison gas was "at one and the same time the most powerful and the most humane method of warfare ever invented."[3].
		After the war, in the face of public sentiment that opposed the use of poison gas, Fries waged a public relations campaign to save the Chemical Warfare Service from being disbanded, and in 1920 the service became a permanent part of the U.S. military.
	womhist.binghamton.edu /chemwar/intro.htm (1001 words)

	Regal Chlorinators: The Case for Responsible Legislation Regulating Chlorine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As a poison gas it was a failure.)
		In most reported incidents involving chlorine, the chlorinating agent is calcium or sodium hypochlorite, and the majority of incidents involving the gas were caused by faulty pressure lines on outmoded pressurized systems.
		There have been incidents in which regulations on chlorine gas caused such economic hardships in times of budget crises, that chlorination was given up because the switch to calcium or sodium hypochlorite was too expensive.
	www.regalchlorinators.com /html/pub._592-4.html (516 words)

	No. 97-P 51 (Attachment) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The introduction of poison gas in World War I and then its widespread use in the later stages of that war led to a horrified reaction.
		In the Iran-Iraq war of the '80s, Iraq used poison gas as a way of stemming the "human wave" attacks of the Iranians.
		The use of poison gas is readily detectable; manufacture is not.
	www.security-policy.org /papers/1997/97-P51at2.html (1098 words)

	Spirit of veterans alive at cemeteries
		Sickly since he was exposed to poison gas during World War I, Luigi Petruzzi died in Philadelphia Naval Hospital in 1932, leaving four children to a pregnant wife who spoke virtually no English.
		Wars, Mary Cook well knows, don't claim all of their victims on the battlefield.
		After the war, he closed the book on that part of his life, refusing to discuss his Army service with his wife and rarely sharing details with his daughters or anyone else.
	www.post-gazette.com /localnews/20030525memorialreg2p2.asp (847 words)

	mustard gas
		in World War I. The burning sensation it causes on contact with the skin is similar to that caused by oil from fl mustard seeds.
		lewisite - lewisite, liquid chemical compound used as a poison gas.
		poison gas - poison gas, any of various gases sometimes used in warfare or riot control because of their...
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	World War I
		War broke out in 1914; a war which was unexpectedly disastrous and destructive in scale.
		When war erupted in 1914, the United States attempted to remain neutral and was a proponent for the rights of neutral states.
		This lesson focuses on World War I and asks students to identify an editorial and propaganda, discuss the differences between a weekly and a daily newspaper, analyze the needs of rural and urban newspaper audiences, and evaluate the possible power of the press and the importance of multiple views concerning events.
	www.42explore2.com /ww1.htm (3411 words)

	New York Daily News - Ideas & Opinions - Editorials: Waiting for Saddam to cross the line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It's a horrible scenario, with U.S. and British soldiers and Marines fighting an entrenched enemy amid clouds of sarin and VX nerve agent.
		Saddam's poison gas - along with his biological weapons and nuclear programs - is the reason for this war.
		With mosques raising funds for Al Qaeda, the city still target No. 1 and America fighting a two-front war on terror, the courts are giving those who protect us the tools to do their jobs.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/ideas_opinions/story/70023p-65157c.html (793 words)

	San Francisco Bay View - National Black Newspaper of the Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world history.
		Harvard President and physicist James B. Conant, who developed poison gas in World War I, was brought into the Manhattan Project by the father of presidential candidate John Kerry.
		Conant was chair of the S-1 Poison Gas Committee, which recommended developing poison gas weapons from the radioactive trash of the atomic bomb project in World War II.
	www.sfbayview.com /081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml (2183 words)

	First World War.com - Encyclopedia of World War I - G
		Gas Attack at 2nd Ypres, German Defence Of
		Gas Attack at 2nd Ypres, Memoir of (1)
		Gas Attack at 2nd Ypres, Memoir of (2)
	www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/g.htm (330 words)

	First World War.com - Vintage Photographs - Poison Gas and Flamethrowers
		Specifically this sub-section contains photography of poison gas and flamethrower attacks.
		Bursting of a gas bomb at Hartmannsweilerkopf, Alsace
		Russian soldiers tortured by poison gas at a Russian field hospital
	www.firstworldwar.com /photos/gas.htm (274 words)

	EETimes.com - Photonic weapons may enter gas warfare class (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		1898) forbade the use of "poison or poisoned arms" in warfare.
		Likewise, lead released as a poisonous cloud of dust may be contrasted with its delivery in a copper-jacketed bullet.
		If the United States deployed lasers or other photonic devices as part of a defense system, a case might be made in court (federal or international) that they were based on delivery of a harmful gas, thus engendering possible indictments for war crimes.
	www.eet.com /story/OEG20010625S0025 (698 words)

	AllRefer.com - mustard gas (Organic Chemistry) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - mustard gas (Organic Chemistry) - Encyclopedia
		mustard gas, chemical compound used as a poison gas in World War I. The burning sensation it causes on contact with the skin is similar to that caused by oil from fl mustard seeds.
		Chemically, mustard gas is a thioether, 2,2′-dichlorodiethyl sulfide, (ClCH
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/mustardg.html (291 words)

	BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Biological and chemical weapons have generally been associated with each other in the public mind, and the extensive use of poison gas in World War I (resulting in over a million casualties and over 100,000 deaths) led to the Geneva Protocol of 1925 prohibiting the use of both poison gas and bacteriological methods in warfare.
		At the 1932 - 1937 Disarmament Conference, unsuccessful attempts were made to work out an agreement that would prohibit the production and stockpiling of biological and chemical weapons.
		During World War II, new and more toxic nerve gases were developed, and research and development was begun on biological weapons.
	www.fas.org /nuke/control/bwc/news/bwc1.htm (1431 words)

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