On March 16, 1988, the town of Halabja in northern Iraq experienced unspeakable horror. It was the day Saddam Hussein ...

As ships in the harbor sank, men threw themselves into water poisoned by the Harvey’s secret cargo: 2,000 mustard gas bombs. Sailors were drenched in liquid mustard gas, or sulfur mustard, which ...

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 ...

But Southend councillor Stephen Aylen fears that the wreck, which lies just eight miles from his constituency, carried a second, 'far more sinister' cargo – mustard gas. He cited the example of ...

Due to the rise in chemical attacks, proper training in the gas chamber could save a service member's life. "Throughout Iraq, there have been pockets of mustard gas and a couple other CBRN-type ...

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The chemical nature of the main substance used can now be stated. It is dichloro-diethyl-sulphide, or mustard gas. Three other substances of similar efficiency were found, all of them chemically ...