One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences

• Main Author: Florian Schmaltz (auth)
• Other Authors: Martin Wolf (auth), Bretislav Friedrich (auth), Dieter Hoffmann (auth), Jürgen Renn (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2017
• Subjects: Biotechnology; Anti-plant Chemical Warfare; Weapons of Mass Destruction; Military-Industrial Complex; Ethics of Chemical Warfare; Fritz Haber; Lethal Unitary Chemical Agents and Munitions; Chemical Weapons in the Middle East; Dual-use Problem; Chemical Weapons During World War II; 1925 Geneva Protocol; Chemical Weapons During World War I
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On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed within a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 dead and 4,000 injured. This chemical attack, which amount...