MUSTARD gas, or 2, 2' dichlorodiethyl sulphide, was first prepared by Guthrie in 1859, and he commented on its vesicant properties. It is, in fact, a very versatile agent, defiling all tissues ...

Researchers say DeepSeek is dangerous and capable of doing everything from generating plans for terrorists to explaining ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

But Southend councillor Stephen Aylen fears that the wreck, which lies just eight miles from his constituency, carried a second, 'far more sinister' cargo – mustard gas. He cited the example of ...

As ships in the harbor sank, men threw themselves into water poisoned by the Harvey’s secret cargo: 2,000 mustard gas bombs. Sailors were drenched in liquid mustard gas, or sulfur mustard, which ...

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 ...

But the most infamous - and deadliest - was mustard gas, in reality an oily vapour first used by the Germans in July 1917, again near Ypres. Known as the “King of Battle Gases”, it acted by ...

A delegation from the global chemical weapons watchdog has arrived in Damascus to meet with Syria’s new leaders for the first time since the fall of former President Bashar Assad ...