The US has pledged to support a new Syrian government that denounces terrorism and eliminates chemical weapons. View on ...

One landfill site in Wales is said to contain "warfare chemicals" including mustard gas Toxic waste including mustard gas is buried among more than 1,500 disused landfill sites across Wales.

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The global chemical weapons watchdog will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss the situation in Syria over ...

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 ...

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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 ...