Chemical Weapon facts
While investigating facts about Chemical Weapons and Chemical Weapons Convention, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Pepper spray is banned from being used in war since it is considered a chemical weapon but is generally allowed as a riot control agent.
how chemical weapons work?
There were so many bombs and chemical weapons dumped into the Gulf of Mexico not even the military knows how much is down there, or where it all is.
What chemical weapons were used in the vietnam war?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what chemical weapons were used in ww2. Here are 50 of the best facts about Chemical Weapons Syria and Chemical Weapons Ww1 I managed to collect.
what chemical weapons were used in ww1?
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Tear gas is a chemical weapon banned at war, but police are still allowed to use it on protesters.
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In 1943 smog formed so suddenly and severely in the Los Angeles area that residents believed they were being attacked by Japanese chemical weapons
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About Greek Fire. An incendiary weapon developed by the Byzantines in the 7th century, it was deployed on ships, and in handheld tubes, operating similar to a flamethrower. Water didn’t extinguish it. Its precise chemical composition is still unknown.
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In 1981 the US claimed Vietnam had used chemical weapons on it's own people, saying over ten thousand had died from what was described as 'yellow rain'. The 'yellow rain' was analyzed and found to be harmless bee feces.
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Fritz Haber helped feed the world, but he also developed the first chemical weapon used in warfare. He is often referred to as “father of chemical warfare.” Haber may have saved more lives than anyone else in history, but he did so accidentally while trying to formulate new ways to kill people.
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In 1988 Reagan prevented the Senate from putting sanctions on Iraq for its violation of the Geneva Protocol on Chemical Weapons. The US also voted against a UN Security Council statement condemning Iraq’s use of chemical weapons
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The presidential limousines in the last decade have their own ecosystem completely sealed from the outside in case of weapon, chemical attacks. They use heavy duty truck frames and use a diesel engine to lug 20k lbs. of steel and hidden weaponry. Two pints of president's blood is also on hand.
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During the Iraq war in 2003, the U.S. Military planned to attach chickens atop Hum-Vees in order to detect chemical weapons. The project was named, Operation Kuwaiti Field Chicken (KFC). However, the project failed when 41 of the 43 chickens died within a week of their arrival.
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Canada wants complete disarmament of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons
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The first German woman to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry married Fritz Haber, and killed herself due to his work on chemical weapons during WWI. The day after her death, Haber led the first gas attack on the Russians.
Why chemical weapons are good?
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Pepper spray is banned for use in war by Article I.5 of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which bans the use of all riot control agents
In August 1943, Roosevelt approved a secret shipment of banned chemical weapons to Italy aboard the SS John Harvey. This ship was bombed by the Luftwaffe which lead to an unintentional release of mustard gas on the city of Bari, Italy. - source
In the mid-1950s, the US government secretly tested chemical weapons on the citizens of St Louis. - source
Some weapons and chemicals forbidden by armies to use during war are actively used on civilians, including Tear Gas.
In 1968 over 6,000 sheep died in Utah after a mishap at a chemical weapons test range some 50 miles away. A cannister aboard a spray plane malfunctioned, dispersing the gas to a height of 1,400 ft instead of the intended 150 ft. - source
When were chemical weapons banned?
From 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein’s rule.
How chemical weapons are made?
There is a "No-Go Zone" in France as a result of WWI battles which littered the grounds with unexploded weapons and toxic chemicals
A CIA project called 'Operation Paperclip' allowed hundreds of Nazi scientists to live freely in the US providing them cushy jobs and a high standard of living. Many of these scientists have committed horrendous war crimes, like experimenting on live humans with chemical and biological weapons
Arguably the person credited with saving the most lives in human history is WWI chemical weapons scientist, Fritz Haber. His work directly lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands during the war, while accidentally saving billions from starvation by developing a way to convert N2 to NH3.
Fritz Haber, a German Chemist who is responsible for both developing ammonia based fertilizers, which has helped feed and sustain the modern worlds population, and various chemical weapons such as chlorine gas, which is resulted in some of the worlds greatest atrocities.
In 1921 Lenin's Bolsheviks used concentration camps and chemical weapons to put down left-wing peasant rebellions against their increasingly totalitarian rule