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 ...

A woman inherits a map of a World War I battlefield in France from her ... important conflict and shed light on the origins of gas warfare.

The topic of deadly remnants from past conflicts regularly resurfaces in the media and beyond. Unfortunately, this issue ...

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 ...