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07/04/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Surviving the worst chemical catastrophes: Introduction to the different kinds of agents used in war

It’s a terrifying thought, but the fact is that the threat of chemical weapons is a very real one. It’s been this way since they were first used in World War I. It’s just that now, more than ever, we’re at a high risk of being thrust into chemical warfare. Those of us with a […]

05/24/2018 / By Edsel Cook

The technology behind the largest battleship built by the Nazis still affects us today

The biggest battleship ever built by Nazi Germany hid itself from Allied bombers by deploying an artificial fog made from toxic chemicals. Seventy years after World War II, the effects of this technology are still felt in Norway, where local trees took many years to recover from the deadly air pollution, according to a Live Science […]

05/20/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Over 100 years later Bayer still refuses to take responsibility for developing the poison gas used during World War I

There has been a loud outcry in recent years against the use of chemical weapons in countries like Iraq and Syria, and rightly so. Utterly destructive and created to kill indiscriminately, these weapons often kill children and the most helpless in society. Chemical weapons make use of chemical mixtures to harm or kill humans, and […]

04/23/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Securing the atmosphere: New device being developed to detect airborne chemical warfare agents in real-time

If chemical warfare were to be unleashed into the atmosphere, how would we know it was there? Would we only find out after it was too late? University of Central Florida researchers are hoping that their new laser technique could one day be used to alert communities of chemical or biological attacks. Photonics and Optics […]

06/01/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

ISIS borrows tactic from the vaccine industry by testing chemical weapons on human guinea pigs

ISIS is using human guinea pigs to test toxic chemical weapons for later deployment against the West, the British news media is reporting. Iraqi special forces reportedly found evidence of chemical experiments on prisoners in papers hidden at Mosul University. The Iraq military recently regained most of that city back from the terrorist army. The documents […]

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