In the chaos of World War II, one secret invention revolutionized warfare—the VT (Variable Time) fuze. This groundbreaking ...

How long have poisonous weapons been used? For more than 2,000 years. As early as 600 B.C., the Athenians poisoned the wells of the Spartans, who later tried lobbing burning sulfur pitch over the ...

The Baltic Sea holds many secrets from past wars. Some of them are deadly. For decades, barrels filled with toxic chemicals ...

Back then, the site was used to test everything from chemical sprays and flamethrowers to various antidotes and protective equipment, and even fire-bombing. After World War II, Dugway mostly shut ...

Canadian soldiers were among the first to witness the horrors of modern warfare as "the war to end all wars" exploded onto the world stage. During the First World War, gas attacks killed or ...

Chemical and biological warfare isn't new. Even in ancient times, war wasn't all swords and longbows ... The horror of chemical weapons left the world reeling. The Geneva Convention made an ...