An American weapon that has never killed an enemy but still claims innocent victims. Editor's Note: This article about the strange and admonitory history of the chemical weapon lewisite was first ...
The whole distressing story of mustard gas poisoning teems with medical interest. But while its lessons are worth taking to heart, we may well hope that the disease itself need only appear in the ...
Recent Ethiopian protests to the League of Nations over the alleged use of a new poison gas by Mussolini's legions brought forth comment by chemistry department officials that it seems probable that ...
From an ice-coated sun deck on a suburban Evanston, Ill. home, a half-paralyzed chemist last week slipped and fell to his death. Thus prosaically ended the life of Winford Lee Lewis, 64, who invented ...
Presenting some astounding facts regarding the potentiality of poison gas in warfare, Captain Thomas Phillips, chemical warfare officer of the First Corps Area of the United States Army, delivered his ...
1878: two stars are born -- The poisonous yellow cloud and the American response -- The hunt for a new king -- The American university experimental station -- Willoughby -- The inter-war years -- ...
World War II (WWII) has been called ''the unfought chemical war." Both sides had produced millions of tons of chemical weapons and had made massive preparations for their use, yet the weapons were ...