Chemical weapons in World War I
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Chemical weapons in World War I
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The use of toxic chemicals as weapons dates back thousands of years, but the first large-scale use of chemical weapons was during World War I. They were primarily used to demoralize, injure, and kill entrenched defenders, against whom the indiscriminate and generally very slow-moving or static nature of gas clouds would be most effective. The types of weapons employed ranged from disabling chemicals, such as tear gas, to lethal agents like phosgene, chlorine, and mustard gas. These chemical weap
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_weapons_in_World_War_I
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2003-01-10T12:03:27Z
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2024-09-03T20:28:43Z
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