The first world war saw the first widespread ... who talk about going on with this war whatever it costs could see the soldiers suffering from mustard gas poisoning,” the British nurse Vera ...

In 53 years of Assad family rule, Syria’s government made chemical weapons by the ton, from giant vats of World War I-era mustard gas to nerve ... amount of sarin — one of the most lethal ...

which traces the intertwined histories of mustard gas in war and chemotherapy. Of the roughly 600 people treated for exposure to sulfur mustard at the harbor, 83 died. Some of the sulfur mustard that ...