The first world war saw the first widespread combat use of modern chemical weapons, starting with the ... and a further 1.2 million injured, sometimes when the poisonous clouds released by ...

Iran is believed to have weaponized pharmaceutical agents to kill or incapacitate.These chemical weapons affect a victim's ...

Russia's Radiological Chemical and Biological Defence troops will be subject to an assets freeze and travel ban.

Chemical and biological warfare isn't new. Even in ancient times, war wasn't all swords and ... The horror of chemical weapons left the world reeling. The Geneva Convention made an attempt to ...

What was it like to live and work in a World War One trench? Find out in our guide. Which new weapons were used in World War One? What weapons were used during World War One and what effect did ...

Russia has reportedly deployed a new, mysterious gas on the battlefield with the intent of quickly incapacitating large numbers of Ukrainian soldiers.

The US on accused Russia of violating the international chemical weapons ban by deploying ... the gas against Allied troops during World War I in one of the first uses of a chemical weapon.

One infamous and well-documented case occurred ... While Germany dabbled with biological weapons in World War I, the Japanese military practiced biowarfare on a mass scale in the years leading ...

Ukraine used drones to strike the Aleksinsky chemical plant in Tula, Russia, late Friday and into early Saturday as part of a ...

The UK has sanctioned Russian soldiers it says have used chemical weapons on the battlefield ... first deployed in battle during World War One. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the UK would ...