The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is reviewing previously-denied claims from World War II Veterans who participated in full-body testing for mustard gas or Lewisite in the 1940s. VA has ...

A "doomsday World War Two wreck" whose bomb-filled hold threatens to unleash a tsunami in the Thames may carry another deadly cargo it's feared - mustard gas. The SS Richard Montgomery sank in the ...

On December 2, 1943 ... never been so immersed in mustard gas, says Susan Smith, a historian of medicine at the University of Alberta and author of Toxic Exposures, which traces the intertwined ...

The first world war saw the first widespread ... who talk about going on with this war whatever it costs could see the soldiers suffering from mustard gas poisoning,” the British nurse Vera ...