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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 (2147 words)

	::Poison Gas and World War One::
		Poison gas was indiscriminate and could be used on the trenches even when no attack was going on.
		A poison gas attack meant soldiers having to put on crude gas masks and if these were unsuccessful, an attack could leave a victim in agony for days and weeks before he finally succumbed to his injuries.
		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 (1172 words)

	First World War.com - Weapons of War - Poison Gas
		The cat was out of the bag; and the use of poison gas continued to escalate for the remainder of the war.
		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)

	Poison Gas - Chemical Warfare in World War 1 - Development, Usage, Delivery of and Countermeasures
		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 soldier's greatest fears.
		Known to the British as HS (or Hun Stuff), mustard gas was not intended as a killing agent (though in high enough doses it was fatal) but instead was used to harass and disable the enemy and pollute the battlefield.
		Gas shells were independent of the wind and increased the effective range of gas, making anywhere within reach of the guns vulnerable.
	www.germannotes.com /hist_ww1_poison_gas.shtml (2251 words)

	poison gas — Infoplease.com
		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.
		Poison gas was used in the Iran-Iraq War, and Iraq has used poison gas on its own civilians, in particular the Kurds.
		coal gas - coal gas coal gas, gas obtained in the destructive distillation of soft coal, as a byproduct in the...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/sci/A0839475.html (532 words)

	poison gas — FactMonster.com
		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.
		Poison gas was used in the Iran-Iraq War, and Iraq has used poison gas on its own civilians, in particular the Kurds.
		coal gas - coal gas coal gas, gas obtained in the destructive distillation of soft coal, as a byproduct in the...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/sci/A0839475.html (426 words)

	Poison Gas near the Knokke beaches
		He knows about the poison gas, but he fears the effects of publicity on the tourist industry along the coast.
		Ten thousand poison gas shells lie stacked in that West Flanders forest, every one a dud that was uncovered by plowing or construction work.
		Toxicology professor, Dr. Heyndrickx, a Belgian poison gas expert who is internationally recognized (he assisted the Japanese in Tokyo with the sarin affair), does worry.
	www.greatwar.nl /gifgas/knokke-eng.html (2086 words)

	Poison Gas Attacks in Japan
		Initial reports, attributed to the Tokyo Fire Department, said that the poisonous substance was acetonitrile, an extremely toxic substance used as a fumigant and in metal treatment and photo processing.
		The latest, unconfirmed, report speculates that a nerve gas called Sarin may be the cause of the tragic occurrence.
		The Narita airport bombing is latest in a string of terrorist acts affecting the country of Japan, dating back to the March 20th poison gas release in the subway system.
	www.emergency.com /japanatk.htm (1959 words)

	poison gas - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		poison gas any of various gases sometimes used in warfare or riot control because of their poisonous or corrosive nature.
		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.
		Poison control centers: where emergencies are the routine.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-poisonga.html (726 words)

	Interior of the gas chamber at Dachau - photographs of the interior openings on the outside wall
		In the descriptions of the gas chamber given by the American soldiers who saw it in the first few days after liberation, it was universally stated that the gas was dispensed through these shower heads.
		None of the liberators, who saw the gas chamber in the first few days, mentioned the openings on the wall where the Zyklon-B gas pellets were actually poured onto the floor through the two bins on the outside wall.
		None of the American soldiers who saw the homicidal gas chamber immediately after the liberation knew that the gas that was used was not liquid or invisible vapor, but rather was in the form of Zyklon-B pellets that are about the size of peas.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /DachauScrapbook/GasChamber/interior04.html (1077 words)

	Halabja poison gas attack Information
		Victims of Iraq's poison gas attack on the Kurdish Halabja in Iraq in 1988 during the Iran-Iraq war.
		The Halabja poison gas attack was an incident on 15 March-19 March 1988 during a major battle in the Iran-Iraq War when chemical weapons were used by the Iraqi government forces to kill a number of people in the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja (population 80,000).
		The poison gas attack on the Iraqi town of Halabja was the largest-scale chemical weapons (CW) attack against a civilian population in modern times.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Halabja_poison_gas_attack (1461 words)

	Trenches on the Web - Armory: Gas Warfare
		Gas was a nuisance, a crippling nuisance, often only wounding and causing widespread panic instead of outright killing.
		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.
	www.worldwar1.com /arm006.htm (1180 words)

	Poison Gas
		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.
		An estimated 91,198 soldiers died as a result of poison gas attacks and another 1.2 million were hospitalized.
	members.fortunecity.com /mikaelxii/poison.html (522 words)

	The Dangers of CS Gas Sprays
		Subsequent to the unfortunate incident in London; one Eric Smith, 53, was sprayed with CS gas during an arrest, for causing affray, in Leeds on the 30th of October.
		The Home Office maintain that CS gas spray is purely a defensive weapon and that it has no injurious or long lasting effects; which is why it is so commonly used during routine arrests at the first sign of stroppiness from a suspect, sometimes even before then.
		So whilst CS gas is considered too dangerous to use, in the middle of a war, against an enemy, the British Government and some UK police forces are happy to have it used on its own citizens.
	www.hippy.freeserve.co.uk /csgas.htm (1326 words)

	THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION -- Veterans and Service Members—Poison Gas Exposure
		In the case of mustard gas, there was usually not a deliberate situation where troops would inhale the agent.
		In addition, there were some circumstances where a gas mask would fail or would be removed at the wrong time and mustard gas inhaled.
		If you or anyone you know was exposed to mustard gas or other poisonous agents that you believe has resulted in a disability, you may wish to contact a Service Officer of The Royal Canadian Legion or a Pension Officer from Veterans Affairs Canada to pursue a claim under the Pension Act.
	legion.ca /asp/docs/serv_bur/poison_e.asp (178 words)

	Poison gas theory 'discounted' - National - smh.com.au
		The NSW Police say a poison gas theory on the Bogle-Chandler mystery presented on ABC television last night had been discounted by both police and a State Government analyst in 1971.
		The ABC documentary suggested the two lovers died after being overcome by hydrogen sulfide, or "rotten egg gas", emanating from the highly polluted river.
		The theory postulates that the gas escaped in high concentration from a sewage overflow vent into the river.
	www.smh.com.au /news/national/poison-gas-theory-discounted/2006/09/08/1157222305643.html (723 words)

	poison gas policies (9.3.06)
		He knew that using poison gas might generate a media furore and political hostility in the US at a time when Britain was trying to get the Americans on side.
		Poison gas was produced at heavily- protected factories at Randle and Rock- savage in Cheshire, and Springfields in Lancashire, and stored in underground dumps in north Wales.
		I am strongly in favour of using poison gas against uncivilised tribes." [1] Opposition to the use of gas and technical difficulties may have prevented the gas from being used in Mesopotamia (historians are currently divided on the issue)[2].
	www.solami.com /britishgas.htm (11455 words)

	Winston Churchill's Secret Poison Gas Memo
		Although one sees how unpleasant it is to receive poison gas attacks, from which nearly everyone recovers, it is useless to protest that an equal amount of H. will not inflict greater casualties and sufferings on troops and civilians.
		I am strongly in favour of using poison gas against uncivilised tribes.* Henry Wilson shared Churchills enthusiasm for gas as an instrument of colonial control but the British cabinet was reluctant to sanction the use of a weapon that had caused such misery and revulsion in the First World War.
		Churchill himself was keen to argue that gas, fired from ground-based guns or dropped from aircraft, would cause only discomfort or illness, but not death to dissident tribespeople; but his optimistic view of the effects of gas were mistaken.
	www.globalresearch.ca /articles/CHU407A.html (1809 words)

	Israelis Adopt Poison Gas “Fashion”
		It is absurd to consider morality on [using poison gas] when everybody used it in the last war without a word of complaint from the moralists or the Church.
		It is simply a question of fashion changing as she does between long and short skirts for women,” wrote Winston Churchill during the Second World War, long after the Geneva Protocol had outlawed the use of poison gas.
		It is not known what type of chemical is in the chemical canister, however, gas dropped by the Israelis in villages in southern Lebanon has resulted in severe vomiting among the civilian population” (see as well this schematic).
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/july2006/210706poisongas.htm (1190 words)

	America Didn't Seem to Mind Poison Gas
		Its wholesale use of poison gas against Iranian troops and Iranian Kurdish towns, and its threat to place chemical warheads on the missiles it was lobbing at Tehran, brought Iran to its knees.
		Even then, its choice of neutral language (condemning the "continued use of chemical weapons in the conflict between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iraq," and calling on "both sides to refrain from the future use of chemical weapons") diffused the effect of its belated move.
		Iraq proceeded to step up its use of gas until the end of the war and even afterward, during the final stage of the Anfal campaign, to devastating effect.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/0117-01.htm (825 words)

	What does poison gas smell like? - By Daniel Engber - Slate Magazine
		Gas victims from World War I recalled a sweet and spicy scent that brought to mind lilacs, garlic, horseradish, onions, or—you guessed it—mustard.
		The bitter-almond smell of the hydrogen cyanide in Zyklon B permeated the gas chambers at the Nazi death camps in the 1940s.
		Chlorine, which was one of the first gases to be used in World War I, does have a greenish-yellow cast, but it doesn't smell like perfume—it's got a pungent aroma reminiscent of bleach.
	www.slate.com /id/2148198 (537 words)

	James Brooks: Chemical Warfare on the West Bank?
		From the typhoid poisoning of Palestinian wells and water supplies in 1948 (3,4) to the conversion of F-16s into nerve gas 'crop dusters' in 1998 (5), Israel has always demonstrated a strong interest in developing CBW agents and methods for their dispersal.
		Thirteen year-old Sliman Salah was playing when a gas canister landed next to him, "enveloping him in a cloud of gas described by witnesses as an unfamiliar, yellow colour." Large doses of anti-convulsants were required to control the boy's seizures and maintain consciousness.
		Eyewitnesses said the gas has a strange smell and a reddish-brownish color." [corrected copy] In a follow up story, IMEMC concluded that "protesters were attacked with gas that is not like the tear gas.
	www.counterpunch.org /brooks07062004.html (3321 words)

	THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION -- Veterans and Service Members—Poison Gas Exposure
		In the case of mustard gas, there was usually not a deliberate situation where troops would inhale the agent.
		In addition, there were some circumstances where a gas mask would fail or would be removed at the wrong time and mustard gas inhaled.
		If you or anyone you know was exposed to mustard gas or other poisonous agents that you believe has resulted in a disability, you may wish to contact a Service Officer of The Royal Canadian Legion or a Pension Officer from Veterans Affairs Canada to pursue a claim under the Pension Act.
	www.legion.ca /asp/docs/serv_bur/poison_e.asp (178 words)

	Friedrich Paul Berg's "NaziGassings.com"
		The poison gas (with as much as 35% CO) was a necessary alternative to the liquid fuels, mostly synthetic, which were reserved for combat vehicles and aircraft.
		One key to unraveling the Holocaust HOAX is the fact that the Germans actually used poison gas as a fuel for nearly all civilian motor vehicles as well as many military vehicles–throughout the war in all of their occupied territories including Russia..
		No doubt, the gas could have simply been called poison gas, which it certainly was, but that would have caused panic among the general public.
	www.nazigassings.com (8424 words)

	Israel's Use of Chemical Weapons
		Gas Attacks in Khan Younis, February 2001: Interviews with victims and medical personnel by James Longley, producer of
		In February 2001 a new gas was used in Gaza.
		This report explores the reported development and deployment of chemical weapons by the government of Israel since 1974, paying particular attention to incidents since 2001 in which unidentified poison gas(es) and other chemicals were used against civilians in the occupied Palestinian territories.
	www.vtjp.org /report/overview.htm (273 words)

	(DV) Nichols: My Country is Using Poison Gas in Iraq
		Radioactive, poison gas made from uranium was recommended to the American Military in 1943 during World War II by atom bomb builders working on the Manhattan Project run by Gen Leslie Groves.
		The uranium components turn into uranium oxide gas after the high velocity bullet or shell penetrates anything solid and explodes, as much as 80% of it ignites, burns, and aerosolizes into tiny, tiny radioactive pieces and floats in the air as a gas, blown about by the wind.
		Zyklon B was "effective" but lacked a long "killing trail." After Jews in the gas chamber or mobile van were killed, the deadly gas was withdrawn and the corpses removed from the chamber or van.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Aug04/Nichols0807.htm (1949 words)

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