During the Battle of Flanders in July 1917, German soldiers deployed sulfur mustard-containing artillery shells on unsuspecting British and Canadian troops, marking the first time "mustard gas" had ...

Key point: The only soldiers in World War II that were killed by chemical weapons. What a perfect night for a weapon of mass destruction. It was December 2, 1943. And the Nazi bomber crews flying over ...

Chemical warfare is one of the most devastating forms of conflict. It leverages toxic chemicals to disable, harm or kill without any physical confrontation. Across various conflicts, it has caused ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: In the end, the mustard gas shipped to Bari proved unnecessary. The Nazis did not employ chemical weapons on the battlefield (though contrary to what President ...

THE HAGUE, NetherlandsTHE HAGUE, Netherlands — An international investigative team said Thursday that its probe into a 2015 attack in Syria found “reasonable grounds to believe” that the Islamic State ...

Doctors from the Mayo Clinic analyzed lung tissue samples from patients who became ill after vaping and determined the damage to their lungs resembles chemical burns, such as those from mustard gas, a ...

In the course of this study the committee reviewed almost 2,000 papers, monographs, abstracts, and technical summaries in search of information regarding the long-term health effects of exposure to ...

In secret chemical weapons experiments conducted during World War II, the U.S. military exposed thousands of American troops to mustard gas. When those experiments were formally declassified in the ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit upheld the dismissal of two remaining claims in a long-running case against chemical company Alcolac brought by former U.S. military personnel who were injured during ...

The whole distressing story of mustard gas poisoning teems with medical interest. But while its lessons are worth taking to heart, we may well hope that the disease itself need only appear in the ...