One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployme...
Friedrich, Bretislav / Hoffmann, Dieter / Wolf, Martin / Schmaltz, Florian / Renn, Jürgen
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed within a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1, 000 dead and 4, 000 injured. This chemical attack, which amounted to the first use of a weapon of mass destruction, marks a turning point in world history...