| 单词 | poison gas |
| 例句 | After poison gas killed the announcer, she switched the radio off. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z It filled the hall like a poison gas. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Trenton police received desperate requests for the poison gas antidote. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “You’d win the war with a new kind of poison gas!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The Americans’ clothes were meanwhile passing through poison gas. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “And even if there were,” the Savage added, with sudden contemptuous resentment, “people would kill them out of helicopters, I suppose, with poison gas or something. I wouldn’t do that, Lenina.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The conflict struck many people as horribly modern, fought as it was with recent inventions like tanks, airplanes, and poison gas. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Arguments about going hungry, dying, bombs, fire extinguishers, sleeping bags, identity cards, poison gas, etc., etc. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He had tried to communicate that the national interest did not lie in simply continuing atomic bomb work, and even suggested banning atomic weapons by international convention “just like poison gases after the last war.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The day after next the truck would come with its poison gas, and that would be the end of all their plans. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Scythe Volta was now in the doghouse, though, because he had lobbed a container of poison gas into the burning maze. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Maybe poison gas is something good to have.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Like billboards whose occupants wore gas masks and reminded passersby that poison gas from Hitler’s Nazi Germany was still a very real threat. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Or a pleasant day's cycling if the Home Counties hadn't just been ravaged by tripod fighting machines and poison gas. Summer voyages: The War of the Worlds by HG Wells 2013-07-26T10:50:02Z The balloon happens to be full of poison gas and bad dreams, true, but as has been previously suggested, Harris is not writing for everyone. Review: ‘Hannibal,’ by Thomas Harris 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Although badly scarred by poison gas on the battlefield, Judah has returned from Europe and attained a degree of power and wealth on the illicit streets of New Orleans. Review | For ‘Gatsby’ fans, 2021 will be the start of remakes. First up: ‘Nick’ 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z The complicated plot encompasses a Russian freight train carrying poison gas and gold; secret military maneuvers; and a brutal May Day confrontation between police and Communists. Sex, Drugs and Crime in the Gritty Drama ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z A yellow-green cloud that drifted over Allied troops at Ypres, Belgium, in April 1915 marked the first use of poison gas in the war. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation Balancing the panel in the same register on the left is a depiction of scientists making poison gas bombs. Detroit museum roars back with powerful exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z As is often the case in a Rowling production, evil is ascendant, seeping through both human and magic realms like poison gas. ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ Review: Apocalypse Too Soon 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The use of mustard gas and other poison gases would be considered a war crime today. Perspective | Recollections of World War I were fading away, but books, movies and TV brought them back 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z A man who, by all accounts, fought bravely in the first world war, and suffered dreadfully – he had poison gas to thank for heavy breathing Hemingway remarks upon. A Moveable Feast was written at a time of struggle but seems hopeful – and fun 2012-05-25T13:18:02Z He becomes so enraged at the Seediqs’ resilience that he unleashes poison gas as a weapon. Movie Review: ?Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale,? by Wei Te-Sheng 2012-04-26T23:32:16Z Next comes a display introducing visitors to the advent of poison gas, with the protective masks and suits that the terrifying new weapon necessitated. London’s Imperial War Museum takes visitors back into the trenches 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z A canister once filled with the poison gas pellets that sealed their fate. The Horrors of Auschwitz at a Museum in New York 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Dangers and threats that are difficult to visualize — such as abstract fears, or real invisible hazards like a poison gas attack — often cause similar metaphors to appear across the sleeps of concerned dreamers, she said. Why Am I Having Weird Dreams Lately? 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z I listened to a guide explain how crystallized pellets of the poison gas Zyklon-B were dropped into sealed death chambers at Birkenau. When History Speaks 2010-10-02T04:09:00Z The attempted theft of a vial of infectious blood is a major event, a catastrophe involving explosions, poison gas, even a bomb in a crowded market, that causes conspicuous damage and leaves victims. The Stifling Decency of “Captain America: Civil War” 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z In an ominous recurrent image, a crop duster strafes a corn field like a bomber delivering poison gas. Review: In ‘Runoff,’ a Rural Family Hits Desperate Times 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z What the crowds get instead, though, is a fog of poison gas. Frieze New York, a Visual Circus Under the Big Top 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z In Owen's updating he sees a man drowning in poison gas: "In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, / He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning." Ten of the best 2011-07-15T21:54:01Z When Thompson sang “Gas,” about soldiers confronting poison gas for the first time, sustained strings switched to brittle pizzicato, conveying the sudden feeling of being unable to breathe. Big Ears Festival: 15 Performances That Soothed, Jolted and Intrigued 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Once back in his lab, Atherton returns to his researches on a weapon of mass destruction, a deadly poison gas, no less. The 19th-century best-selling horror novel that isn’t ‘Dracula’ 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z “There’s something glamorous about it, there’s something alluring but also poisonous,” Mr. Toor said, laughing, before going on to say that it could evoke snakes, poison gas and absinthe. Two Artists, Two Views of the Human Figure 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Lieber’s code, authorized by Lincoln in April 1863, banned torture and the use of poison gases, and set out a distinction between combatants and civilians that remains enshrined in the Geneva Conventions of 1949. ‘Lincoln’s Code,’ by John Fabian Witt 2012-10-10T21:53:50Z Stewart played a tape of President Barack Obama urging military action against Syria because of last month's poison gas attack. Jon Stewart returns to 'The Daily Show' 2013-09-04T13:08:29Z This week Travis targets the Miami PD with a poison gas attack – and, really, who can blame him? TV highlights 01/06/2012 2012-05-31T19:00:01Z It concludes with a stanza describing the death of a fellow soldier following a poison gas attack: "Soldiers Don't Go Mad": A stunning account of poetry, paradox and the horrors of war 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z "Syrian citizens have been tortured, murdered, disappeared, attacked with poison gas or forced to flee for their lives and leave behind everything they had," Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra said in a statement. Netherlands and Canada ask world court to rule on Syria torture claims 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z “Syrian civilians have been tortured, murdered, disappeared, attacked with poison gas or lost everything when they fled for their lives,” Foreign Affairs Minister Wopke Hoekstra said in a statement. Netherlands and Canada bring torture case against Syria at UN’s top court 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z In 1915, in a vain attempt to break the stalemate, both sides started using poison gas, which was completely horrific, burning the lungs, eyes, and skin of combatants. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops joined the British and French forces, employing tactics that included infantry attack and the use of poison gas, tanks, and aircraft. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z But poison gas continued to hit rebel areas. Syria's Assad boosted by return to Arab fold 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z But poison gas continued to hit rebel areas, marking some of the most extensive use of chemical weapons since the First World War. Syria's Assad boosted by return to Arab fold 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z But many of the regime's worst atrocities - the indiscriminate barrel bombing and poison gas attacks - were still to come. Syria on way back to Arab fold as isolation crumbles 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z The survivors of poison gas attacks were considered to be the unlucky ones. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Their effect was also psychological, much like that of poison gas. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Saddam Hussein and other regional leaders used poison gas, airstrikes and other tools of mass slaughter over the decades to suppress the Kurds. Turkish strikes on US Kurd allies resonate in Ukraine war 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z A few paragraphs later, though, he concedes that “some are noxious,” listing slavery and poison gas as examples. Review | A generous exploration of creativity that embraces its mysteries 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Assad, with Russia’s backing, consistently cast a cloud of confusion, accusing the opposition of fabricating evidence or deploying poison gas themselves to try to frame him. Chemical weapons use from Syrian war stokes Ukraine’s fears 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z For surviving soldiers everywhere, the psychological damage from years of carnage and desperation left wounds as crippling as those inflicted by poison gas and artillery strikes. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The combatants used then-new weaponry such as tanks and airplanes as well as machine guns and poison gas, making the soldiers’ experience unlike anything earlier generations had faced in battle. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z A science teacher reported the boy asked how to make poison gas. Opinion | We May Be Able to Prevent Some Mass Shootings 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z They said it had sent up a dangerous cloud of poison gas. Ukraine, Russian-backed separatists trade accusations over acid tank explosion 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z A 50-ton tank of the poison gas was damaged by the attack, local officials said, creating an ammonia cloud. Ukraine conflict: Russian shelling blamed for corrosive gas leak 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z If Russia were to use weapons like poison gas in its war, this would be seen as crossing a major red line, most probably prompting calls for the West to take decisive action. Ukraine: What are chemical weapons and could Russia use them? 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Any use of poison gases in Ukraine would violate a decades-old international treaty banning such weapons, and represent a dangerous turn in Russia’s two-week-old military offensive against its neighbor. Intelligence points to heightened risk of Russian chemical attack in Ukraine, officials say 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z “I suspect that those wars to come will be made horrible beyond my conception by new poison gases, inextinguishable flames and lightproof smoke clouds,” he wrote. Perspective | In 1922, author W.L. George imagined what life would be like in 2022. He came pretty darn close. 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z We have tried to outlaw some of the most brutal and inhumane weapons — poison gas, biological agents, napalm and even nuclear weapons — but we’ve never succeeded. It doesn’t take a madman to start a nuclear war 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Some of the shells fired at them contained poison gas. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the late 1980s, the Iraqis dropped poison gas on the Kurds, killing 5,000. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z New findings from the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office showed that the poison gas could not have come from a combustion engine. Minnesota police: Poison gas that killed 7 came from furnace 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z The war continued to rage for several more years, with Syrian forces using poison gas, imposing starvation sieges on rebellious communities and reducing residential neighborhoods to rubble through bombing campaigns. Murder, Torture, Rape: A Landmark Conviction on State Violence in Syria 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Human rights groups and independent investigators have previously accused the Assad regime of maintaining at least a latent ability to attack civilians with poison gases. Israeli airstrikes in Syria targeted chemical weapons facilities, officials say 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z They were herded into rooms that would then be filled with poison gas. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z New tools of war—machine guns, poison gas, armored tanks, larger artillery—had not delivered the fast-moving war they had expected. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And not just because there’s an onrushing cloud of poison gas dispensing the gift of global annihilation like a malevolent Santa working through a naughty list that includes every living person on Earth. Review: An unpleasant 'Silent Night' with the dreary dozen 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Some people interned in Sachsenhausen were murdered with Zyklon-B, the poison gas also used in other extermination camps where millions of Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Ex-Nazi guard denies he was at Sachsenhausen concentration camp 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Significantly, he cited intelligence reports that Mr. Hussein had authorized his military to use poison gas if the United States invaded. Colin Powell, Who Shaped U.S. National Security, Dies at 84 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z You’re not really a secret agent until you put on a funny hat and fake mustache while you’re trying to stop an evil conglomerate from filling a theater with poison gas. I Expect You To Die 2 is the most fun I’ve had solving puzzles this year 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The spears and swords of the Ethiopians were no match for Italian airplanes, tanks, guns, and poison gas. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Guards subjected torture victims to electric shocks, doused them with poison gas and burned them. Hissène Habré, former leader of Chad convicted of crimes against humanity, dies at 79 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Some were burned, others were sprayed with poison gas and still more were forced to put their mouths around the exhaust pipes of running vehicles, causing severe burning when the motor accelerated. Chad’s former dictator Hissene Habre dies of COVID-19 at 79 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The organization responsible for enforcing the global ban on chemical weapons voted Wednesday to punish Syria for repeatedly using poison gas against its own citizens, in a move vigorously opposed by Russia. Watchdog group votes to punish Syria for chemical weapons use 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z The prosecution alleged that around 180,000 people died, many of them civilians killed by poison gas. Iraq judge who presided over Saddam’s trial dies of COVID-19 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Soldiers wore masks like those shown at left to protect themselves from poison gas. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Fighting to the death as poison gas encircles you and your mercenary friends. Games of 2020: The Press X To Continue awards 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Ypres was notoriously the battle where the Germans first used poison gas in World War One. Germany to wipe Nazi traces from phonetic alphabet 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Those reports, which identified the specific military units responsible, concluded that Syria continued to use poison gas years after Damascus renounced the use of chemical weapons and surrendered the bulk of its weapons for destruction. Watchdog group votes to punish Syria for chemical weapons use 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Trump’s influence is often oblique: his presence seeps into records like poison gas. Demi Lovato has made the most damning protest song of the Trump era 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z A brigade of Marines joined two Army divisions in the closing months of the war and fought brutal hand-to-hand combat in the wood, occasionally contending with swirling poison gas. Trump said U.S. soldiers injured and killed in war were ‘losers,’ magazine reports 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z It is used for a family of highly toxic nerve agents with a composition slightly different from the better known poison gases VX and sarin. Explainer: What is Novichok? 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z During the First World War it was used as a poison gas. Halogen nightmares 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z The military developed Operation Sphinx, a plan to drop poison gas on Japanese cities during World War II that was hidden until 1998. Review | A frustrating search for the truth about America’s biological warfare 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Yet Iraq had no nuclear program, no poison gases, no shells filled with deadly viruses. Review: The lies and mistakes that led us into Iraq, laid out in a new book 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z The town was the site of a suspected poison gas attack that killed dozens of people in 2018 and prompted Western missile strikes. Syria goes to the polls as new sanctions hit war-ravaged economy 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z ‘Hyper Scape’ transforms into a capture the flag game in its final circle As the circle closes in, players don’t experience a storm or poison gas as you might expect. Ubisoft’s Hyper Scape is a fast, chaotic battle royale from the developer of The Division 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z For a long time he denied that Italian forces had used poison gas against the Ethiopians in the 1935-1936 invasion. Statue of 'racist' journalist vandalised in Milan 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z I heard continuous explosions for 15 long minutes, and poison gas blanketed several blocks of a densely populated neighborhood. Protests: Eyewitness accounts, taking a knee, legacy of racism 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z It is unsurprising, then, that the sudden arrival of a deadly and unbridled illness was characterized as an “invasion,” an “attack,” and “as dangerous as poison gas shells.” Military Metaphors Distort the Reality of COVID-19 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The investigation determined the type of munitions used to deliver the poison gas, and the names and ranks of the Syrian officers who ordered the attacks, although it redacted their identities from the final report. Syrian regime blamed for using sarin gas in landmark OPCW report 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z In 1918, they produced ads that featured Uncle Sam, saying, “Coughs and sneezes spread diseases, as dangerous as poison gas shells.” The Lessons of the Elections of 1918 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z Hundreds more American soldiers would suffer the impacts of poison gas. Those who survived the horrors of ’1917′ still honored 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Savioux had enrolled to fight in the first world war at the age of 17 and suffered from exposure to poison gas, which plagued him for the rest of his short life. Agnes Callamard: unflinching UN official taking on Saudi crown prince 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Special forces end the siege, but use a poison gas in the process which kills many of the hostages. Timeline: Vladimir Putin - 20 tumultuous years as Russian president or PM 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z In Syria, Assad’s strategy relied heavily on aerial attacks—using poison gas, indiscriminate shelling, and barrel bombs to terrorize the population, until everyone except the rebels fled. The Moral Logic of Humanitarian Intervention 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Deadly poison gases trapped in the ancient eruption were a primary reason archaeological digging was suspended late in the 18th century; modern excavation techniques revived the search in the 1990s. Review: Getty Villa’s ‘Buried by Vesuvius’ is exquisite and, at times, explicit 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z In March, Syrian state media cited a hospital in government-held Hama as saying 21 people suffered choking symptoms from poison gas after rebels shelled a village. US accuses Syrian government of fresh chemical weapon attack 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The Iraq War veteran has drawn criticism, however, for meeting with Bashar al-Assad in January 2017 - after the Syrian president had been accused of repeatedly using poison gas on civilian populations. Who will take on Trump in 2020? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s army waged a brutal scorched-earth campaign, using poison gas and forcibly resettling up to 100,000 Kurds in the southern desert. Kurds’ ambitions caught in power games 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z They soon found out differently, and we hear about the desolation, the dead bodies, the rats, the lice and the poison gas. Review: Peter Jackson's documentary 'They Shall Not Grow Old' brings WWI footage to life 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z He seemed genuinely outraged by the “Animal Assad” after the Syrian leader used poison gas on children. Opinion | Trump loves kids. So his border guards are firing tear gas at them. 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The global chemical weapons watchdog is considering sending inspectors to investigate an alleged poison gas attack by rebels in Syria that wounded dozens, its director-general said Monday. Watchdog mulls sending team to Syria after gas attack 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z The chief of the global chemical weapons watchdog says the organization is considering sending inspectors to investigate an alleged poison gas attack in Syria. The Latest: US-backed forces battle IS in Syria 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z At least 50 civilians were being treated Saturday following a suspected poison gas attack in government-held Aleppo in northern Syria, according to reports in Syrian state media. 50 Syrians treated in suspected gas attack; rebels deny involvement 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z The Germans first used poison gas, chlorine, against the British in 1915 to try and break the long stalemate on the Western front. World War I: 100 years on, the horrific legacy of chemical weapons endures 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Men and women were killed on an industrial scale with poison gas, machine guns and flamethrowers. The day the guns fell silent 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Nearly 10 million soldiers died, often in brutal trench warfare where poison gas added a cruelty in warfare that the world had never seen. A century after fighting for Paris, leaders mark armistice 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The use of poison gas came to epitomize the ruthlessness of warfare that the world had never seen. In the final hours of World War I, a terrible toll 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z In those cases, he reacted emotionally to the disturbing images of children asphyxiated by poison gas. How Idlib may be changing Trump's Syria strategy 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The Greek phalanx, the crossbow, the cannon, poison gas: all introduced new, powerful methods of destruction on the battlefield and fundamentally changed the way war was fought. Are We Ready for the Future of Warfare? 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z French and British forces to attack Syrian government facilities related to the production of chemical weapons after a poison gas attack killed dozens of people in Douma district. Trump adviser Bolton says Russia 'stuck' in Syria, Iran must leave 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z After the first world war, the major nations signed the 1925 Geneva Protocol, pledging never again to use poison gas in warfare. Banned 21 years ago, yet still the world stands by as chemical attacks go unchecked 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Missile strikes by the US, Britain and France destroyed another Syrian scientific studies and research centre facility in Damascus in April, in response to a suspected poison gas attack. Head of alleged Syrian chemical weapons facility dies in bombing 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Readers were being presented with a fairly wide range of viewpoints in the popular press, on speed records and aviation developments but also threats of warfare and poison gas bombs. A historian explains how people of the past imagined the future 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z They were on death row for multiple crimes including a 1995 poison gas attack on Tokyo subways that left 13 dead. Japan, victim families long waiting execution of cult leader 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z But, fought across open fields and in the dark, overgrown woods, it seemed especially grim, with hand-to-hand fighting, fixed bayonets and poison gas attacks. The Battle of Belleau Wood was brutal, deadly and forgotten. But it forged a new Marine Corps. 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany both pursued the development of poison gas and nerve agents prior to 1939. Banned 21 years ago, yet still the world stands by as chemical attacks go unchecked 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z In the latest report of poison gas being unleashed, the international chemical weapons watchdog said Wednesday that chlorine was likely used as a weapon in the rebel-held northern Syrian town of Saraqeb in early February. New French sanctions target suspected Syrian arms makers 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The mission also is investigating allegations that poison gas was used in Douma, near the capital Damascus, in a deadly April 7 attack. Watchdog: Chlorine used in Syrian town of Saraqeb 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The suspected poison gas attack has sparked an ongoing clash of narratives between the West and the governments of Syria and its key ally, Russia. Britain, France denounce Russian claim as ‘stunt’ 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z The Syrian government and its Russian ally deny involvement or using poison gas on April 7. G7 foreign ministers condemn Russian behavior, says it impedes... 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z As we have seen since evidence of the Douma attack emerged on 8 April, how we think about the use of poison gas – and about the moral requirement to respond to it – still matters. The taboo on chemical weapons has lasted a century – it must be preserved | Peter Beaumont 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Russia and close ally Syria deny responsibility for a suspected poison gas attack in the Damascus suburb of Douma on April 7. Russia clashes again with US and allies over Syria attacks 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z The operation, which targeted chemical weapons facilities in Damascus and near Homs in retaliation for the suspected use of poison gas on civilians in Douma on 7 April, was Macron’s first major international military decision. Macron’s bid to look strong on Syria could weaken him in France | Pauline Bock 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z In interviews broadcast by the pro-government al-Ekhbariya television channel, 13 medical workers, including nine doctors, said the symptoms they treated suggested that the patients were suffering from asthma, not the effects of a poison gas. Russia accused of tampering with the site of alleged Syrian chemical attack 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z On Saturday, the United States, France and Britain launched 105 missiles on Syria in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack. Futures rise on hope Syria conflict will not escalate 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z The reality is that even before Haber began his lethal work, poison gas had been singled out for censure. The taboo on chemical weapons has lasted a century – it must be preserved | Peter Beaumont 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z The United States, France and Britain launched 105 missiles targeting what the Pentagon said were three chemical weapons facilities in Syria in retaliation for the suspected poison gas attack in Douma on April 7. Inspectors push to visit suspected Syria gas attack site after... 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Haley said the joint military strike “put a heavy blow into their chemical weapons program, setting them back years” and reiterated that if Assad uses poison gas again, “the United States is locked and loaded.” US to hit Russia with new sanctions for aiding Syria’s Assad 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z President Trump has vowed that Syria’s allies will pay a “big price” for facilitating the suspected use of poison gas. Trump to Impose New Sanctions on Russia Over Support for Syria 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z The United States, France and Britain launched 105 missiles on Saturday, targeting what they said were three chemical weapons facilities in Syria in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack in Douma on April 7. Oil markets tense after western strikes on Syria, but rising U.S.... 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z The United States, France and Britain launched 105 missiles targeting what the Pentagon said were three chemical weapons facilities in Syria in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack in Douma on April 7. Asian shares up, oil down as Syria fallout seen limited 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z Trump was seemingly motivated to act, as he had been a year earlier after a similar chemical attack, by images of the lifeless bodies of children said to have been stricken by poison gas. Trump touts 'perfectly carried out' missile strike, but lacks an overall strategy toward Syria 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z That followed a suspected poison gas attack by Syrian government forces on a rebel-held Damascus suburb that killed dozens, including children. Pope ‘deeply disturbed’ by lack of common response to Syria 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z The town was also the scene of a suspected poison gas attack on April 7 that prompted the U.S., The Latest: Assad says strikes on Syria were based on ‘lies’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z The Western countries said the strikes were aimed at preventing more Syrian chemical weapons attacks after a suspected poison gas attack in Douma on April 7 killed up to 75 people. Western powers to study options if Syria chemical weapons used... 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z But the Chemical Weapons Convention, which went into force in 1997 and which Syria joined, under pressure, in 2013, does bar deliberately using it as a poison gas. A Hard Lesson in Syria: Assad Can Still Gas His Own People 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z When announcing the attack, President Donald Trump tried to shame Iran and Russia into stopping Mr Assad from using poison gas again. America, Britain and France strike Syria 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z The action by the United States, Britain, and France targeted President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons capabilities in response to a deadly poison gas attack near Damascus a week ago, Washington said. Syrian army vows to press war, rebels say strikes not enough 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z The White House said the Douma poison gas attack was part of a major offensive on the rebel-held area by the regime, and that regime helicopters were seen dropping improvised “barrel bombs” on the district. The Pentagon's 'large body' of evidence that steered Trump to Syria strikes 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z French and British forces to attack Syrian facilities related to production of chemical weapons after a poison gas attack last week killed dozens of people in Douma, Syria. After chemical weapons attack, Trump quickly changed tune on Syria 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump called on Syria’s patrons in Russia and Iran to force Mr. Assad to halt the use of poison gas in the seven-year-old civil war that has wracked his country. U.S., Britain and France Strike Syria Over Suspected Chemical Weapons Attack 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z In testimony Thursday to the House Armed Services Committee, Mattis said he worried that Assad might retaliate for a major U.S. attack by using poison gas against the 2,000 American troops deployed in Syria. Pentagon slow-rolls Syria strike, worried about the evidence and legal basis for attack 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z A year later, Trump finds himself again weighing his response to a suspected poison gas attack by Assad’s forces, this time in the town of Douma last weekend. With Russia on his mind, Trump looks for tougher approach on Syria:... 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z However, the threat of a strike remained after Washington’s earlier warnings against the Syrian government for what is said was a suspected poison gas attack on its civilians. Stocks cautious on trade, Syria anxiety; dollar near six-week highs 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned of imminent military action in Syria over a suspected poison gas attack near Damascus that Syrian opposition activists and first responders say killed more than 40 people. The Latest: British PM summons Cabinet to discuss Syria 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z U.S. officials have been consulting with global allies on a possible joint military response to the poison gas attack. Donald Trump’s Syria strike warning spurs national security team to action 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Russia has repeatedly denied that a poison gas attack occurred, saying gruesome photographs of the victims were fake. Pentagon slow-rolls Syria strike, worried about the evidence and legal basis for attack 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z At the UN on Tuesday, Russia and western allies voted against each other’s proposals for setting up a body dedicated to investigating repeated poison gas use in Syria. Trump tells Russia: get ready for US missile strikes in Syria 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z The Russian military, which has troops in Syria, said on Monday that its officers had visited the site of the alleged attack and found no evidence to back up reports of poison gas being used. AP sources: US, France and UK discuss gas attack response 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z The United States and its allies are considering a strike against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces following a suspected poison gas attack last weekend. Oil prices near 2014 highs over warnings of western air strikes... 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z May has said the Assad regime and its Russian backers must be held to account if found responsible for the poison gas attack on the rebel-held town of Douma that killed at least 42 people. US, France and Britain agree to respond to Syrian gas attack 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Syrian opposition rescue workers and medics said more than 40 people died in the poison gas attack and hundreds were injured. Russia hits back over Syria chemical attack with call for UN inquiry 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z A senior Russian lawmaker says Moscow is willing to help arrange a visit this week for experts from the international chemical weapons watchdog to the site of a suspected poison gas attack in Syria. The Latest: Syrian troops on alert amid fear of US strike 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Do the Russians really want to be associated with a regime that uses poison gas against its own people? Trump to Decide Soon Whether to Retaliate for ‘Barbaric Act’ in Syria 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Donald Trump has condemned the “heinous” suspected poison gas attack in Syria and says he will make a decision on the US response within 24 to 48 hours. Trump says he will respond to Syria gas attack within 48 hours 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z President Donald Trump plans to confer with senior military leaders Monday, after he threatened a “big price to pay” for a suspected poison gas attack in Syria that killed women and children. The Latest: Mattis does not rule out airstrike against Syria 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z The missile attack followed a suspected poison gas attack on Saturday on the last remaining foothold for Syrian rebels in the eastern suburbs of Damascus. Syrian media report missile attack; US says it didn’t fire 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Monday’s missile attack followed a suspected poison gas attack on Saturday on the last remaining foothold for the Syrian opposition in the eastern suburbs of Damascus. Syrian media report missile attack; US says it didn’t fire 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z In the wake of the reported poison gas attack, officials in Washington worked Sunday to verify the claim by Syrian opposition activists and rescuers that the Assad government was responsible. Trump warns Assad: ‘Big price to pay’ for fatal Syria attack 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z President Donald Trump warned of a “big price to pay” as aid groups said dozens of people were killed by poison gas in a rebel-held town. Syria says U.S. suspected of attacking air base but Pentagon denies it 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Syrian opposition activists and rescuers said Sunday that the poison gas attack in Douma killed at least 40 people and that families were found suffocated in their homes and shelters, with foam on their mouths. Donald Trump condemns chemical attack in Syria 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z The suspected poison gas attack Saturday on the besieged town of Douma came almost exactly a year after the U.S. missile attack prompted by the Khan Sheikhoun deaths. Syrian media report missile attack; US says it didn’t fire 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Assad's government denied responsibility, as it has in the past, and Russia on Sunday called accounts of a poison gas attack "bogus." Trump warns of 'big price' for suspected poison gas attack in Syria 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Syrian activists, rescuers and medics said a poison gas attack in Douma killed at least 40 people, with families found suffocated in their houses and shelters. Trump calls out ‘Animal Assad’ for attack, criticizes Putin 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z They allege the government mounted a poison gas attack. The Latest: UK warns Russia not to block Syria attack probe 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z BEIRUT, Lebanon — Anti-government activists accused the Syrian government of attacking a Damascus suburb with poison gas on Saturday as Syrian forces stepped up their campaign to retake the last rebel-held pocket near the capital. Poison Gas Attack Reported by Syrian Anti-Government Activists 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z Some opposition activists in Douma posted photographs of people wearing gas masks saying that government forces are shelling the town with poison gas. Violence claims more lives in Syrian capital and suburbs 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z Strategically important on Belgium's frontline, the town saw the first mass use of poison gas by the Germans on the Western Front. Bid to identify town's 'unknown soldiers' 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Officers cling to refinement — they wear ties in their crumbling, candle-lighted bunker — and reflect on the coming ravages across a terrain of poison gas, carbines and corpses. In 'Journey's End,' soldiers reminisce and wait to die in the muddy trenches of World War I 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Syria’s deputy foreign minister Faisal Mekdad, denied opposition charges that government forces used poison gas in their attacks on some suburbs of Damascus, the capital. Pentagon head warns Syrian forces on use of chemical weapons 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z It accused the government of using “poison gas.” Russian plane crash in Syria kills 39 servicemen 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Syria had eliminated its poison gas stockpiles, and described allegations it was still using chemical weapons as “absurd”. Syrian government ground forces attack Ghouta despite Russian truce... 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z After spending time in hospital for shell shock - what is now known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - and damage to his lungs from poison gas, he was discharged from the Army. Bid to identify town's 'unknown soldiers' 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z The 14 people killed in eastern Ghouta on Sunday included an infant who was allegedly killed in a poison gas attack on the town of Sheifouniyeh. Violence rages in Syria as U.N. calls to stop ‘hell on Earth’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Local doctors and Syria’s state-run news agency say six civilians suffered breathing difficulties and other symptoms indicative of poison gas inhalation after an attack launched by Turkey on the Kurdish-controlled enclave of Afrin. The Latest: US says unlikely Turkey used chemical weapons 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z That week, dozens of Syrian civilians, including many children, had been killed in a poison gas attack, and the night before, Trump had fired cruise missiles in reprisal. How to stop a mosque: the new playbook of the right 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood said on Wednesday that Russia has violated its duty to guarantee the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile and prevent the Assad government from using poison gas. Syrian government ground forces attack Ghouta despite Russian truce... 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z During World War I, chemist James Conant was deeply involved in research on what was considered the worst imaginable weapon: poison gas. Opinion | How merit-based college admissions became so unfair 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z National Security Council said the ban on chemical weapons, such as nerve agents and poison gas, is now under threat. US: Syria poses threat to global chemical weapons ban 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Local doctors and Syria’s state-run news agency reported Saturday that six civilians suffered breathing difficulties and other symptoms indicative of poison gas inhalation after an attack launched by Turkey on the Kurdish-controlled enclave of Afrin. The Latest: US says unlikely Turkey used chemical weapons 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z He succumbed to effects of poison gas on 29 December 1917, aged 36. Reunited in death: The five brothers killed in WW1 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Syria had eliminated its poison gas stockpiles, and described allegations it was still using chemical weapons as “absurd”. Syrian government ground forces attack Ghouta despite Russian truce... 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z After the victims were locked into the chambers, the engine was started and poison gas poured in.” My great-grandparents died in the Holocaust but now I want German citizenship 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Past incidents – such as visceral TV images of children killed by poison gas in Syria – suggest that Trump can be swayed by direct appeals to the heart. Trump faces test of temperament in Las Vegas – and entrenched partisan divide 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z I remember seeing pictures of Kurdish children lying in the streets after Saddam Hussein killed them with poison gas. As Kurdish Borders Close, War of Words Heats Up 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z But then, a huge poison gas leak hit one of the polluting company’s major factories, forcing thousands of people to evacuate and injuring many others. Who’d Create a P.R. Crisis on Purpose? Well, Only the Sweat Was Real 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood said on Wednesday that Russia has violated its duty to guarantee the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile and prevent the Assad government from using poison gas. Syrian government ground forces attack Ghouta despite Russian truce... 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z The strike took place the morning after U.N. investigators said the Syrian government was responsible for a sarin poison gas attack in April. Israel hits Syria target reportedly tied to chemical weapons 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Later, he oversaw the manufacture of a new poison gas, lewisite, at a secret factory near Cleveland, Ohio, in the US chemical-weapons programme. History: Of chemistry and conflict : Nature : Nature Research 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z I just said that Assad’s worse than Hitler because Hitler didn’t use poison gas. Al Franken: 'I don't think that this president is equipped to handle the job' 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Or that poison gases inspired Einstein to invent a refrigerator? The Air You Breathe Is Full of Surprises 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Trump’s order in April to launch airstrikes against Syria to punish President Bashar Assad’s government for a poison gas attack just 63 hours earlier signaled to supporters his decisiveness, to critics his impetuousness. North Korea: What happens when the 'fire and fury' starts? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z The strike took place the morning after U.N. investigators said the Syrian government was responsible for a sarin poison gas attack in April. Israel hits Syria target reportedly tied to chemical weapons 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The owner of the company that developed the poison gas for the Nazis was executed after World War II. Psychologists not liable for CIA interrogations, defense lawyers in Spokane case say 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Along the same lines, a French journalist reported that Le Pen’s principal deputy denied the use of the poison gas Zyklon B in the Nazi gas chambers. Macron hosts Netanyahu, condemns anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z When we hear about poison gas attacks in Syria, we can trace them directly back to Haber, 100 years ago. The Air You Breathe Is Full of Surprises 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z In it, he argued that the poison gas was actually used by the Syrian opposition to trick Washington into attacking the regime. Opinion | Why, oh why, does Trump love Russia so very much? 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Churchill supported using poison gas in certain conflicts and referred to whites of British ancestry as “a stronger race, a higher grade race” than minorities. Winston Churchill was larger than life and a perfect character for movies and TV 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Saddam's government waged the Anfal campaign against them in the 1980s, killing tens of thousands including with poison gas in the city of Halabja. Iraqi Kurdish leader says no turning back on independence bid 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z When the White House announced Monday that Syria might be preparing another poison gas attack — and warned of dire consequences — critics were wary. Room for skepticism on Trump team’s wider Syria policy 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Trump ordered the strike on the Shayrat airfield in Syria in April in reaction to what Washington said was a poison gas attack by Assad's government that killed at least 70 people in rebel-held territory. U.S. says it appears Syria planning another chemical weapons attack 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Cons: Does not actually have a surface, which is a problem when you set your ball on the tee and it plunges into an endless soup of poison gas. Since we have to get off Earth soon, which of humanity's new planets will be best suited for golf? - Golf Digest 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z Relations between the two countries, however, are seen reaching another low after U.S. fired missiles at Syria to punish Moscow's ally for its suspected use of poison gas earlier in April. Russia's Lavrov says ready to cooperate with U.S. on Syria: agencies 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z Russia, which backs Assad in the conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions, has said the gas was released by an air strike on a poison gas storage depot controlled by rebels. French intelligence says Assad forces carried out sarin attack 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z If the deaths of “beautiful babies” — as Trump had put it — in what the U.S. said was a poison gas attack couldn’t sway people, LeBleu figured nothing could. How a Montana county became a stage for the national debate over refugees 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z One was to strike Syria for using poison gas. Coal museum sees future in alternative fuels; Trump does not 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z When the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun was hit this month with an attack of poison gas, the incident drew international condemnation and prompted the Trump administration to launch a retaliatory missile strike. Syria has faced international condemnation for using chemical weapons. But Islamic State has them too 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Trump’s order last week to launch airstrikes against Syria to punish President Bashar Assad’s government for a poison gas attack just 63 hours earlier signaled to supporters his decisiveness, to critics his impetuousness. North Korea: A potential train wreck in motion 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Assad has said in two media interviews since April 4 that the evidence of a poison gas attack was false and denied his government had ever used chemical weapons. French intelligence says Assad forces carried out sarin attack 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z I’m not talking about the White House press secretary’s claim Tuesday that Adolf Hitler didn’t use poison gas, at least not against his “own people,” even if the Nazis did send Jews to “Holocaust centers.” Opinion | The unforgivable mistake Sean Spicer makes every day 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Moscow has stood by Assad, saying the poison gas belonged to rebels, an explanation Washington dismisses as beyond credible. Putin says trust erodes under Trump, Moscow icily receives Tillerson 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Nazis experimented with poison gas in late 1939 with the killing of mental patients, which was termed “euthanasia.” Spicer apologizes for Hitler comment that angered many 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z He predicted there would be more poison gas attacks to come, which he said would be false flag operations by rebels in order to justify more US missile strikes. US defense chiefs say they want to deter more chemical attacks, not oust Assad 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Nazis experimented with poison gas in late 1939 with the killing of killing of mental patients, which was termed “euthanasia.” Spicer says even Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Western countries have dismissed Russian suggestions that the poison gas belonged to rebels as beyond credibility. Tillerson heads to Moscow carrying Western call for Russia to abandon Assad 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The United States fired cruise missiles at a Syrian air base last week in response to a poison gas attack on a town in northwestern Syria which Washington says was carried out by government forces. Monitor says Syrian forces use barrel bombs despite U.S. warning, Syria denies 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Video depicted limp bodies and children choking while rescuers tried to wash off the poison gas. Tillerson cites Russian inaction as helping to fuel Syrian poison gas attack 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z In the faces of victims – contorted, breathless or pale in death – Loqman Abdulqader saw echoes of his own brothers, killed by the same poison gas nearly three decades ago. For survivors of Halabja massacre, Syria gas attack evokes flashbacks of death 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Trump said he had launched the strike because he was moved by images of women and children choking on poison gas. Syrian war victims not sure U.S. raid makes a difference 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump said he had launched the strike because he was moved by images of women and children choking on poison gas. U.S. Strike on Syria Brings Fleeting Hope to Those Caught in Brutal Conflict 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z And like some other refugees, he questioned why a poison gas attack that was attributed to the government prompted the American strike now, when earlier atrocities did not. Syrian Refugees Laud U.S. Strike and, in ‘New Emotion,’ Trump 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z In light of the poison gas attack, Mr. Tillerson said, “it would seem there would be no role for him to govern the Syrian people.” For 2 Advisers, Syria Strike Is a Chance to Step Out of the Shadows 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z And whatever cache of poison gas or other chemical agents the Syrian government has remains intact, including one at the air base that the Pentagon deliberately didn’t target for fear of spreading a toxic cloud. Syria crisis tests Trump's plan for a new world order 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Trump then made a televised statement on the operation he said he ordered in retaliation for the poison gas attack, which killed scores of people, including children, in a rebel-held area on Tuesday. At U.S.-China summit, Trump says he and Xi can overcome their many problems 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z But they were also familiar, a harrowing flashback to 2013, when the Syrian government unleashed the last major poison gas attack on its own people. On Syria Attack, Trump’s Heart Came First 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Hours after a poison gas attack in Syria killed dozens of civilians on Tuesday, President Donald Trump's intelligence advisers provided evidence Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was behind the atrocity, officials said. In abrupt shift on Syria, Trump turns to military advisers 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Syrian officials decried a missile strike by U.S. forces early Friday launched in retaliation for a poison gas attack, calling it an "aggression" that led to "losses." Syrians confirm 'losses' at airbase following massive U.S. airstrike 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z President Trump is considering military action against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government as a response to a poison gas attack that killed more than 70 people, many of them children, in northern Syria this week. Trump considering military strike on Syria in response to poison gas attack 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The president declined to offer details about potential action, but he said the death of “innocent children” from poison gas “crossed a lot of lines for me.” Syria, Stephen Bannon, Pepsi: Your Thursday Briefing 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z By the end of World War I, more than 90,000 soldiers had been killed by poison gas — many after weeks of agony. Analysis | How the world responds to chemical gas attacks: Outcry but no real action 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z It took nine hours for Trump to join an international chorus of outrage against the poison gas attack, which left dozens of civilians dead. Human rights fade from U.S. foreign policy agenda under Trump 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z But Moscow offered an alternative explanation that could shield Assad: it said it believed poison gas had leaked from a rebel chemical weapons depot struck by Syrian bombs. Russia denies Assad to blame for chemical attack, on course for collision with Trump 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Syrian opposition activists have described Tuesday’s attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun as among the worst poison gas attacks in the country’s six-year civil war. The Latest: Russian says rebel-held town in Syria exposed 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Syria's army, in a statement posted on state news agency Sana, said it never had and never would use poison gas. Syria 'chemical attack' down to Assad, US says - BBC News 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z After that, in order, the bill specifies poison gas, electrocution and firing squad as execution methods. Execution statue, with firing squad, heads to Miss. governor 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z A year later, when poison gas attacks killed hundreds in rebel-held areas of Damascus, Obama faced a decision: Make good on his implied threat and launch cruise missiles and bombers against Syria’s government and military? President Obama, who hoped to sow peace, instead led the nation in war 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Yet during and after the Second World War, too, the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom exposed tens of thousands of soldiers to poison gases for military research. Chemistry: The hidden war : Nature : Nature Research 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Syrian opposition activists have described Tuesday’s attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun as among the worst poison gas attacks in the country’s six-year civil war. The Latest: Russian says rebel-held town in Syria exposed 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z It was also the first time poison gas was used on the Western front. Passchendaele: WW1 battle centenary commemorated - BBC News 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Member states of the world’s chemical weapons watchdog on Monday slammed Syria for using poison gas during its civil war and for repeatedly failing to fully explain the scope of its chemical weapons program. World Digest: Nov. 28, 2016 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z On Sunday Syrian state media said militants fired poison gas at a government-held area of Aleppo, causing 35 people to choke, a report that a rebel official denied. Rebels step up Aleppo offensive with three car bombs 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Not only did Assad fail to step aside, but his forces later smeared Obama’s famous “red line” all over history by using poison gas on civilian centers. Obama’s hallucinatory excuses on Syria 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z The government vehemently denies using chemical weapons, but a United Nations inquiry last month said the Syrian military had been responsible for poison gas attacks in the past. Even in a bunker under a mountain, Syrian hospital knocked out by strikes 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z World War One, with its brutal trench fighting and poison gas attacks, was not known for its chivalry. WWI: The 'gentlemanly massacre' of Scarborough's fishing fleet - BBC News 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The latest apparent poison gas attack adds to a litany of what Assad's opponents say is deliberate targeting of civilians, often with banned weapons, to force rebels to surrender. Iraq militia fighters join battle for Syria's Aleppo 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The government and Russia have accused rebels of using poison gas. Rescuers say toxic gas dropped on Syrian town where Russian helicopter shot down 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Nicknamed Chemical Ali for masterminding the killing of thousands of Iraqis with poison gas, he had become the symbol of the brutal regime. Why a mother had to visit the place her son died - BBC News 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z For many Germans, the first indication that they were about to be attacked was the sight of what they took to be clouds of poison gas floating across no man’s land towards them. ‘The roaring of the shells was diabolical.’ It was zero hour on the Somme 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z In 1999 she unnerved Israelis when, after embracing Yasser Arafat’s wife Suha, she listened without protest as her Palestinian counterpart alleged that Israel used “poison gas” against Palestinians. AP Analysis: Mideast showed Hillary Clinton US power’s limit 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Anyway, locking the door didn’t help, because Donald Trump came boiling through the keyhole of the Republican castle like poison gas. After Trump, the deluge: Does the GOP catastrophe hold the seeds of renewal? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Little is publicly known about Islamic State's access to unconventional weapons, and whether they are producing poison gases at chemical plants or laboratories, or simply are recycling toxic materials recovered from the pre-1991 period. U.S. questions Islamic State detainee on use of chemical weapons 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z In the 1980s Saddam used poison gas against them; in the 1990s, though they were protected by a Western no-fly zone, he was determined to cripple them financially. Fin de renaissance 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The decision not to attack did, however, enable a diplomatic deal brokered by Russia in which Assad agreed to surrender his poison gas arsenal and production equipment to international chemical weapons inspectors. Former US defense chief: Obama 'hurt credibility' by not bombing Syria in 2013 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z In April 2014 he gave persuasive evidence that, in an attempt to frame Assad, Erdoğan provided extremist Sunni militias with the crudely concocted poison gas that exploded in a Damascus suburb the previous August. He’s made the Middle East worse: Let’s be honest, Obama bears as much responsibility for this mess as predecessors who shaped them 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The last place I ever expected a poison gas attack was in a five-star hotel here in Pakistan’s capital. From Hotel to Hospital: The Perils of Reporting in Pakistan 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z He said the group's use of poison gas so far was intended to "hurt the morale of our fighters," and did not cause any casualties. U.S. questions Islamic State detainee on use of chemical weapons 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z At the end of the long road from Damascus, people encounter, not poison gas and severed heads in HD, but the drizzle of the human soul. How we found Azam - the 'lost' Syrian refugee boy - BBC News 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Towards the end of the war it was converted to produce poison gas. The stone dinosaurs and other treasures in danger - BBC News 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z It dropped dynamite and floated poison gas into them. As Egypt Floods Gaza Tunnels, Smugglers Fear an End to Their Trade 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z President Obama, the deal’s principal proponent, has repeatedly refused to recognize the existence of Islamist radicalism and failed to enforce even his own red line against Bashar Assad’s use of poison gas in Syria. Cleaning Up After the Obama Team’s Iran Deal 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Why didn’t the Germans — or the Allies, for that matter — use poison gas in World War II? Did you know Walt Disney designed the world’s weirdest gas mask? 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z The picture of Aylan has become a rallying cry, while that of the children suffocated by poison gas was suppressed, pushed from the public eye and erased from our memory. The turmoil of today's world: leading writers respond to the refugee crisis 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z A new report also says the extremists used poison gas in Syria. Your Tuesday Briefing 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z He was logical and consistent; as logical and consistent in the European jungle as the poison gas called Lewisite and the shattered bodies of children killed in the bombardment of an open town. A Point of View: The enduring relevance of Eric Ambler's spy novels - BBC News 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Deadly heat and radiation—like poison gas and lethal diseases—are invisible killers that are indiscriminate in the carnage they wreak. The 70th Anniversary of the Summer of The Bomb 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Some of us consider the bomb in the same category as poison gas and were against its use on a civilian population. Historian Contemplates "Ugly" Reality of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z When I’m talking about growth rates, I’m not talking about that GDP, which counts poison gas the same as it counts penicillin,” the 79-year-old industrialist said, veering off his prepared remarks. Charles Koch Says U.S. Can Bomb Its Way to $100,000 Salaries 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z The world’s first full-scale attack by poison gas took place on April 22, 1915, near the town of Ypres in Belgium. Facing Poison Gas, 1915 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, reports emerged Saturday that the Islamic State group used projectile-delivered poison gas against Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria on several occasions last month. ISIS Suicide Attack at Iraq Marketplace Kills 115 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Hospital scenes show men with bloody bandages, fresh amputation wounds and blistered skin from poison gas, understated enough to keep the PG-13. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘Jurassic World’ 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Fifty-two percent endorse the use of poison gas, 44 percent are for the electric chair, 36 percent are for a firing squad, and 27 percent are for hanging. Large Majority of Americans Still Backs Death Penalty 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z It was later claimed the flames produced HF vapour and another chemical analogous to phosgene, A poison gas used in World War One. How 1970s deodorant is still doing harm - BBC News 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z And he said the Syria prayer also made many lawmakers uncomfortable, since the planned US strikes were aimed at punishing Assad for allegedly using poison gas against civilians. What's Driving Pope Francis' Middle East Diplomacy? 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Under the deal with Washington and Moscow, Syria agreed to permanently and completely destroy its chemical weapons program and cannot use poison gas in warfare. Exclusive: Weapons inspectors find undeclared sarin and VX traces in Syria - diplomats 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Women have been subjected to medical and poison gas experimentation. Empty marching in Korea 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z “Once again, it is Germans who are designing and producing poison gas factories,” he said in an interview. Günter Grass, German Novelist and Social Critic, Dies at 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Obama's decision in summer 2013 not to bomb Syria after the use of poison gas there, coupled with its sudden announcement it had conducted secret nuclear talks with Riyadh's nemesis Iran, further alarmed the Saudis. With Yemen strikes, Saudis show growing independence from U.S. 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Lethal injection was considered a humane advancement over other forms of execution including poison gas, electrocution, hanging and firing squad. Three of Utah's 8 death row inmates have chosen firing squads under new law 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z In a statement released late Tuesday, the main Western-backed Syrian opposition group called on the United Nations to send a fact-finding mission to investigate an alleged poison gas attack on a rebel-held northern town. Syria investigating circumstances of US aircraft crash 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Monday’s purported attack with chlorine would be one of the most serious uses of poison gas in Syria since a deadly chemical attack outside Damascus in August 2013. Activists accuse Syrian military of deadly poison gas attack 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z A decade ago, human error resulted in a train hauling chlorine gas to crash into a parked train on a siding, releasing poison gas that killed nine people and injured 250 others in Graniteville, S.C. Crude-oil train wrecks raise questions about safety claims 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Continued gas attacks by the Egyptians resulted in a scathing report by the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1967, followed by a United Nations resolution condemning the use of poison gas. Richard Beeston, correspondent in Cold War hot spots, dies at 88 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z She observes that poison gas was the first successful deterrent, noting its nonuse during World War II, but she is counting only combatants. A higher form of killing 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Monday’s purported attack would be one of the most serious uses of poison gas in Syria since a deadly chemical attack outside Damascus in August 2013. Syria investigating circumstances of US aircraft crash 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z His enemies like to recall that Chad’s government accused the Libyan forces of employing napalm and poison gas during the war. Libya’s New Strongman 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z When he returned from his filmmaking break, Stewart played a tape of President Barack Obama urging military action against Syria because of last month’s poison gas attack. Comedy Central says Jon Stewart leaving ‘The Daily Show’ 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z They range from his stance on race, his treatment of the Tonypandy Riots and the use of poison gas. Weekendish: The best of the week's reads 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z The German institute that developed poison gases for the Great War also developed an insecticide, Zyklon-A, which in a later form, Zyklon-B, poisoned more than two-thirds of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. A higher form of killing 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Still, Churchill made huge mistakes in his long political life - Gallipoli, the Black and Tans in Ireland, backing the use of poison gas. How Winston Churchill achieved greatness despite his flaws 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The story of Mussolini, asking an ambassador which poison gas was the most deadly, being told perfume, or flattery, epitomizes this tendency perfectly. The Oil Price Outlook For 2015: Beware Optimism 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Local news reports said the top of the mountain was wrapped in a pungent odor of sulfur, raising fears of poison gases and new eruptions. Hikers Found on Japanese Volcano Are Feared Dead 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Obama has repeatedly called for Assad to step down and condemned what the U.S. says is his government's use of poison gas and other tactics in the country's long-running civil war. Arab nations offering airstrikes against Islamic State, Kerry says 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z Top Saudi officials last summer lashed out against Washington after it decided against bombing Assad following a poison gas attack and after U.S. officials began negotiations with Iran over its atomic program. U.S. courts skeptical Arab allies in Islamic State fight 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Obama’s credibility among Mideast leaders is shot — in large part because of his famous reluctance to meet his own previous red lines and unleash promised air strikes after Syria’s leaders used poison gas. Decision time on the Islamic State 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z "The president's decision not to act after Syria used poison gas on its citizens showed other leaders of the world....." The World Needs a Clarion 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Questions also linger over whether Assad is hiding undeclared poison gases or attacking rebels with chlorine. Group: Justice elusive year after Syria gas attack 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z An estimated 5,000 people, mostly women and children, were killed when Iraqi jets dropped poison gas on the town. Profile: Who are the Peshmerga? 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z He would miss the horrors of the trenches, poison gas and mechanised warfare - shot and killed shortly after his 17th birthday. World War One: Who killed John Parr? 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z World War I – the first industrial conflict on a global scale – began a century ago, using the rapidly advancing science to devise new weapons like poison gas, industrial shelling, aerial bombing, fighter planes and tanks. 1914-2014: Weapons of the Next Great War 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z “They used to send a canary into a coal mine and if it died, they knew there was poison gas. Is this our canary in a coal mine?” EXCHANGE: Residents work to increase butterflies 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z “On the 22 April 1915, the Germans launched their first poison gas attack on the Western Front, leaving a gap in the line four miles wide,” Cameron said. For Obama, Putin, Merkel: WWI is family history 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Folsom was the first prison to have electricity, and was the only equipped to carry out poison gas executions beginning in 1938. Sing Sing aims to join the ranks of America's prison museums 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Questions persist over whether Syrian President Bashar Assad is hiding undeclared poison gases or attacking rebels with chlorine - a toxic industrial gas that is not specifically classified as a chemical weapon. AP News in Brief at 8:58 p.m. EDT 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z War diaries from World War One are peppered with accounts, mainly of British artillery shelling British troops by accident, poison gas clouds being misdirected, or a worn gun barrel firing shells inaccurately. US investigates friendly-fire deaths 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Just after his new poison gases were first put to work in the trenches, she took his service revolver and shot herself. The bringer of life and death 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Assad’s brazen return to warfare by poison gas puts Obama in a miserable spot. Obama Is About to Face a New Syria Crisis Moment 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Opposition groups, including the main Western-backed Syrian National Coalition, said the poison gas attack hurt dozens of people, thought it did not identify the gas used. Official: U.S. Looking Into Syria Toxic Gas Reports 2014-04-13T15:36:49Z The main Western-backed opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, said the poison gas attack hurt dozens of people, though it did not identify the gas used. Syria Rebels, Government Report Poison Gas Attack 2014-04-12T19:00:55Z Electronic noses of other kinds are already being put to work in a range of different fields, from checking for poison gas in war zones to ensuring the quality of beer. Sniffing out cancer with electronic noses 2014-03-09T02:47:26Z Priority 1 chemicals are the deadliest precursors for poison gas. U.S. accuses Syria of stonewalling on chemical arms plants 2014-03-06T00:38:11Z "He'd been visiting collieries after coal mine explosions and other disasters, determining the cause of death, much of which was due to poison gases that were present in the mine," according to Dr Sturdy. Deadly tests by gas mask pioneer 2014-02-25T00:01:52Z But the Syrian president has already brazenly crossed Obama’s “red line” by killing more than 1,500 civilians, including hundreds of children, with poison gas during the course of the war. On Syria, Obama’s past words collide with national security implications 2014-02-20T15:58:14Z Four years of trench warfare lay ahead, a stalemate that led to the development of the tank and poison gas. 100 Years Later, Celebrating the Taxis That Saved Paris 2014-02-14T18:27:12Z The Russian government said Assad was acting "in good faith" in carrying out last year's international chemical disarmament agreement and a June 30 deadline for eliminating the poison gas agents remains viable. Syria talks end first round, government not committed to return 2014-02-01T01:09:38Z The West blames Assad for a poison gas attack near Damascus on August 21 that killed hundreds of people, but are now working with his forces to remove and destroy such weapons from Syria. Syria death toll hits nearly 126,000: monitoring group 2013-12-02T13:17:57Z Albania is seen as a possible destination as it recently destroyed its own poison gas arsenal. Anger in Albania over chemical arms 2013-11-15T11:07:44Z Riyadh is angry over what it sees as a weak U.S. commitment to removing Assad, especially since President Barack Obama dropped a threat of air strikes after a poison gas attack near Damascus in August. U.S., Russia fail to agree on Syria peace talks date 2013-11-06T01:19:13Z No issue has aroused more disapproval than the U.S. decision not to bomb Syria after a poison gas attack in August, and Washington's subsequent agreement to a diplomatic process for removing Assad's chemical arsenal. Analysis: Saudis unconvinced by Kerry's show of U.S. goodwill 2013-11-05T16:53:11Z Riyadh is angry over what it sees as a weak U.S. commitment to removing Assad, especially since Obama dropped a threat of air strikes after a poison gas attack near Damascus in August. Syria talks under way, Damascus insists Assad will stay 2013-11-05T11:50:43Z “It also would carry a built-in oxygen supply in case of poison gas, a cooling system to keep soldiers comfortable, and sensors to back to headquarters,” according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. The U.S. Military Takes <em>Iron Man</em> Very Seriously 2013-11-04T10:54:01Z But he quickly called off armed action, accepting instead a Russian proposal that Assad give up Syria's poison gas stocks. Arab League backs Syria peace talks, urges opposition to go 2013-11-04T12:24:35Z It was the world's deadliest chemical weapons incident since Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces used poison gas against the Kurdish town of Halabja 25 years ago. Syria meets deadline to destroy chemical production facilities 2013-11-01T02:42:17Z The ambush happened in the Eastern Ghouta region, scene of August's poison gas attack that prompted a UN Security Council resolution calling for the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal. Syria rebels doubt death report 2013-10-25T22:59:11Z The area is part of Eastern Ghouta region, scene of August's poison gas attack which killed hundreds of civilians and prompted a UN Security Council resolution calling for the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal. Car bomb targets Syrian mosque 2013-10-25T18:52:59Z The agreement avoided possible U.S. military strikes that Washington said were intended to punish Assad for an August 21 poison gas attack. NATO, Russia could play role in eliminating Syrian chemical arms 2013-10-23T15:40:25Z Saudi anger boiled over after Washington refrained from military strikes in response to a poison gas attack in Damascus in August when Assad agreed to give up his chemical weapons arsenal. Saudi Arabia warns of shift away from U.S. over Syria, Iran 2013-10-22T22:10:21Z Mr Sabra was also fiercely critical of the international community, accusing it of failing to punish the Syrian government after the 21 August poison gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians near Damascus. Key Syria bloc rejects peace talks 2013-10-13T14:43:31Z That agreement averted imminent U.S. cruise missile strikes on Syria in protest over the poison gas massacre of more than 1,000 people on Aug. 21. Before Syria vote at U.N., tense talks for Kerry and Russian counterpart 2013-09-28T23:31:50Z Security Council voted unanimously Friday night to secure and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile, a landmark decision aimed at taking poison gas off the battlefield in the escalating 2 1/2-year conflict. U.N. Votes to Eliminate Syria's Chemical Weapons 2013-09-28T05:05:24Z The United States itself has been slow to dispose of chemical weapons on its territory, beginning the process of eliminating its 30,000 tons of poison gases in 1990. Obama’s Sarin Plan B 2013-09-23T09:45:00Z Forgotten, Syria’s chemical victims struggle A month after the Aug. 21 poison gas attack, hundreds of Syrian civilians still suffer side effects. Private donations give edge to Islamists in Syria, officials say 2013-09-21T22:50:01Z The plan emerged after a U.S. threat to attack Syria and intense international diplomacy after a poison gas attack killed hundreds of civilians on the outskirts of Damascus last month. Syria discloses chemical weapons stockpile details: watchdog 2013-09-21T12:12:44Z President Barack Obama to win Congressional approval for military action to punish Assad for a poison gas attack, which the United States says killed more than 1,400 people in rebel-held areas. Russia says U.N. report on Syria attack preconceived, political 2013-09-18T08:59:30Z The recent flurry of diplomatic activity followed the Aug. 21 poison gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians in a Damascus suburb, and by President Barack Obama’s threat of U.S. strikes in retaliation. U.N. Votes to Eliminate Syria's Chemical Weapons 2013-09-28T05:05:24Z Security Council resolution to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons even as France and Russia clashed over Moscow's insistence that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's is innocent in an August 21 poison gas attack on civilians. Envoys seek Syria U.N. resolution as France, Russia squabble 2013-09-17T23:28:58Z That deal was agreed after President Barack Obama threatened to launch air U.S. strikes against Syria because of the August 21 poison gas attack. Five big U.N. powers meet on Syria chemical arms draft 2013-09-17T19:17:07Z Geneva 2 seemed stalled indefinitely after a poison gas strike outside Damascus that killed hundreds of people. Syria says Western powers are forestalling peace talks 2013-09-17T11:36:55Z The prevailing belief internationally is that poison gas was used and that hundreds of people were killed - the US says more than 1,400. Hague warning over Syria agreement 2013-09-16T11:49:17Z First, he took U.S. forces to the brink of a military strike over an August 21 poison gas attack in Syria that Washington blames on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Obama says U.S. remains prepared to act on Syria if diplomacy fails 2013-09-14T19:51:41Z The deal has put off the threat of air strikes Obama made after poison gas killed hundreds of Syrians on August 21, although he has stressed that force remains an option if Assad reneges. Assad government hails 'victory' in arms deal, troops attack 2013-09-15T22:21:05Z The president sought congressional approval for a military strike against Syria for a suspected poison gas attack against rebels, only to meet resistance from within his own Democratic ranks as well as from Republican lawmakers. Former Obama aide Summers withdraws from Fed chair consideration 2013-09-16T03:18:46Z No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. Op-Ed Contributor: What Putin Has to Say to Americans About Syria 2013-09-12T00:25:10Z Yet before chemical weapons were outlawed by the Geneva Protocol of 1925, the British government approved the use of poison gas against rebel tribesmen in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why chemical weapons provoke outrage 2013-09-12T10:23:04Z What he didn’t understand were reports that the United States and other countries may attack Syria, a country in the Middle East, because they think Syria used poison gas on civilians, including children. New kids book explores why wars happen 2013-09-10T22:17:58Z We know that if Assad does not face a single consequence for his actions, he has no reason not to keep using poison gas again and again. Obama’s War for Peace 2013-09-10T08:45:00Z Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the initiative will not succeed unless Washington abandons plans for potential air strikes to punish Assad for an August 21 poison gas attack which U.S. Assad says chemical handover not result of U.S. threat: Interfax 2013-09-12T13:25:34Z Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an opinion piece in the New York Times, confirmed Moscow's view that there was "every reason to believe" the poison gas was used by rebels. U.N. report may hint at source of Syria chemical attack 2013-09-12T03:29:13Z During a visit to Kazakhstan, Lavrov welcomed the Syrian government's acceptance of Russia's proposal that it place its chemical arsenal under international control following an August 21 poison gas attack in Syria's civil war. Russia says there is still a chance for peace in Syria 2013-09-12T13:11:21Z Washington and Paris have threatened to carry out strikes to punish Assad for the August 21 poison gas attack on Damascus suburbs, which they say Syrian government forces carried out. Syria backs chemical weapons plan, bombs Damascus 2013-09-10T13:29:46Z Assad, who has accused the rebels of the poison gas attack, said that if there were U.S. strikes on Syria, the United States "should expect everything." U.S. should 'expect everything' in response to any Syria strikes: Assad 2013-09-09T16:43:52Z After U.S. findings that Assad used poison gas on Aug. 21, killing more than 1,400 people, including hundreds of children, Obama vowed a firm U.S. response. Obama launches final push to win congressional support for a strike on Syria 2013-09-08T23:31:00Z The State Department later said Kerry had been making a rhetorical argument about the impossibility of Assad turning over chemical weapons, which Assad denies his forces used in the August 21 poison gas attack. Kerry: Syrian surrender of chemical arms could stop U.S. attack 2013-09-09T12:28:07Z Obama made the decision on his own, less than two weeks after Assad allegedly used poison gas to kill 1,500 people, hundreds of them children. Obama demands Congress clarifiy U.S. military intervention in Syria and beyond 2013-09-06T23:39:47Z While the diplomatic wrangling was under way in far-flung capitals, Assad's warplanes bombed rebellious districts of Damascus on Tuesday for the first time since the August 21 poison gas attacks. Syria backs chemical weapons plan, bombs Damascus 2013-09-10T13:29:46Z Obama blames forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the August 21 poison gas attack in the Damascus suburbs that killed up to 1,400 people. World leaders pressure Obama over Syria at G20 summit 2013-09-06T09:18:03Z Washington, which is seeking U.S. congressional approval for military action, blames the latest poison gas attack on forces loyal to Assad. U.S. sees no viable path forward on Syria in U.N. Security Council 2013-09-05T18:25:54Z I was 31 then and yes the US media knew and discussed the use of poison gas by Saddam and he remained our ally against the Ayatollah. Al-Qaeda's Proxies Fear a U.S. Strike on Syria 2013-09-05T19:05:24Z Van Rompuy described the August 21 poison gas attack near Damascus, in which an estimated 1,400 people died, as "abhorrent" and a crime against humanity that could not be ignored. EU urges diplomacy on Syria, condemns 'abhorrent' chemical attack 2013-09-05T15:15:58Z Syria has tried to avoid confirming whether it possesses poison gas, while denying it has used it. Syria backs chemical weapons plan, bombs Damascus 2013-09-10T13:29:46Z But he said he doesn’t exclude supporting U.N. action — if it’s proven that the Syrian government used poison gas on its own people. War Overshadows Economy as G20 Leaders Meet 2013-09-05T08:03:27Z Security Council resolution to punish Assad - if it could be proved he had used poison gas. U.S. resolution on Syria strike passes first hurdle in Senate 2013-09-05T01:15:30Z Assad denies deploying poison gas that killed hundreds of civilians last month. Obama wins backing for Syria strike from key figures in Congress 2013-09-04T04:49:33Z Obama's abrupt decision on Saturday to halt plans to punish Assad for using poison gas and instead wait for congressional approval momentarily united a fractious region in astonishment. In Mideast, view of U.S. as hesitant superpower sharpens 2013-09-03T14:21:46Z Riyadh already shares rebel frustrations with the shortage of U.S. military aid reaching Syria, despite Obama's commitment in June to step up assistance after poison gas was first used. Insight: As Obama blinks on Syria, Israel, Saudis make common cause 2013-09-02T12:52:58Z Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal told foreign ministers meeting in Cairo that condemnation of Syria over the poison gas attack, which U.S. officials say killed 1,429 people, was not enough. Saudis back international intervention against Assad 2013-09-01T18:39:37Z Washington had seemed to be gearing up for a strike against President Bashar al-Assad's forces over an August 21 poison gas attack that U.S. officials said had killed 1,429 people. Syrians relieved, disappointed at Obama strike delay 2013-09-01T16:06:26Z President Barack Obama said on Saturday there should be a military strike on Syria in response to an August 21 poison gas attack which U.S. intelligence officials said killed more than 1,400 people. Assad says Syria can confront external aggression 2013-09-01T14:26:28Z Syria is believed to have multiple nerve agents and poison gases in its chemical weapons stockpile. Sarin gas used in Syria attack, Kerry says 2013-09-01T13:14:32Z President Barack Obama said on Saturday he would ask Congress to vote on whether to launch strikes to punish the Damascus government for a poison gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians. Netanyahu mum on Obama's Syria delay but says Israel strong alone 2013-09-01T11:22:10Z The opposition blames those units for playing a role in the poison gas attack. Syrian rebels plan raids to exploit Western strikes: commander 2013-08-31T10:46:47Z Assad's forces fired rockets on Friday at a Damascus suburb hit by poison gas last week in another attempt to capture the strategic area, opposition activists said. U.S. says world cannot let Assad get away with chemical attack 2013-08-31T02:49:32Z Secondly, how can culpability for mass murdering a thousand civilians by poison gas be proved against the Assad regime beyond reasonable doubt? Three Key Questions on Syria 2013-08-30T19:15:00Z Witnesses said the team were meeting with soldiers at the Mezze Military Airport who government media said were exposed to poison gas in the Damascus suburb of Jobar on Saturday. U.N. inspectors arrive at military hospital in Damascus 2013-08-30T10:22:11Z U.S. officials conceded on Thursday they lacked conclusive evidence that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad personally ordered last week's poison gas attack, and some allies have warned that military action without U.N. Britain says no to Syria intervention as U.S. considers actions 2013-08-30T00:33:52Z Hussein never did use chemical against Israel, using conventional Scud missiles instead, but the uncertainty was terrifying in itself, given Iraq’s history of poison gases used against Iranian forces and Iraq’s Kurdish minority. As U.S. Ponders Syria Attack, Israel Fears the Fallout 2013-08-29T22:05:23Z With U.S. air strikes looming in response to poison gas attacks last week on rebel-held Damascus suburbs, some of the formations on the move are accused by Assad's opponents of firing the chemical weapons. Exclusive: Syrian army moves Scud missiles to avoid strike 2013-08-29T18:40:00Z The US and UK say the Assad regime killed hundreds in recent poison gas attacks. Assad will fight West's 'aggression' 2013-08-29T15:10:17Z But the West says it must now act to stop the use of poison gas. Obama makes case for punishing Syria over gas attack 2013-08-29T00:04:50Z The administration’s goal is not to oust Mr. Assad, but merely to punish the government for using poison gas on its own population and to try to stop it from happening again. Listening Post: On Syria, a Drumbeat With Some Echoes of Iraq 2013-08-28T20:38:26Z Russia, Assad's main arms supplier, opposes military action and has suggested that rebel forces may have released the poison gas. U.S., allies prepare for probable military strike on Syria 2013-08-28T00:09:03Z Western powers are preparing for a possible attack against Syria to punish Assad for alleged poison gas attacks against civilians. U.N. official urges Iran to sway Syria government on peace talks 2013-08-27T19:31:57Z But it accused Assad of genocide and demanded, in unusually strong language, that the perpetrators of last week's poison gas attack, in which hundreds of civilians were killed, face justice. Arab League blames Syria's Assad for chemical attack 2013-08-27T15:21:37Z Hundreds of people were killed in a poison gas attack on Damascus suburb last Wednesday. Obama makes case for punishing Syria over gas attack 2013-08-29T00:04:50Z Activists say at least 80 people were killed in Mouadamiya when the district was hit with poison gas. Washington warns Assad over 'undeniable' chemical weapons attack 2013-08-27T02:41:58Z U.N. team visits Damascus site After being shot at by snipers, weapons experts reach town where poison gas was allegedly used. Transcript: Secretary of State John Kerry’s remarks on alleged Syria chemical attack 2013-08-26T20:11:00Z Western states say they believe the rebels lack access to poison gas or weapons that could deliver it. U.N. experts in Syria to visit site of poison gas attack 2013-08-26T02:44:35Z The poison gas hit the Ghouta area, where acres upon acres of agricultural land supply the capital of 3 million people with fresh vegetables, meat and dairy. Fears of food and water poisoning after Damascus gassings 2013-08-25T19:06:11Z The incident took place just three days after a U.N. chemical weapons team arrived in Syria to investigate other smaller allegations of poison gas use. Syria says granted access to U.N. to chemical weapons site 2013-08-25T13:28:55Z But Russia said the rebels were impeding an inquiry and that Assad would have no interest in using poison gas for fear of foreign intervention. Obama studies options after Syria gas attack, consults UK's Cameron 2013-08-25T01:39:59Z He also did not mention the international furor around Syrian opposition reports that forces loyal to the Damascus government killed as many as 1,000 civilians with poison gas in suburbs of Damascus on Wednesday. Iran's Rouhani says chemical weapons killed people in Syria 2013-08-24T07:57:11Z The United Nations stepped up demands on Syria for access to rebel-held Damascus suburbs hit by an apparent poison gas attack as activists sought to smuggle samples from victims to U.N. chemical weapons inspectors. Brahimi: Alleged chemical weapon attack shows Syria peace talks urgent 2013-08-23T09:59:16Z "We're being exterminated with poison gas while they drink their coffee and sit inside their hotels." U.N. presses Syria to allow gas attack inspection 2013-08-23T00:19:26Z They were first developed and used in the First World War in 1915, when poison gas was used on soldiers. Why are chemical weapons so controversial? 2013-08-22T12:01:30Z Western countries say they do not believe the rebels have access to poison gas. Activists say more than 200 killed in gas attack near Damascus 2013-08-21T10:36:02Z The groups cited EPA data that they said showed there are 470 U.S. chemical facilities that put at least 100,000 people at risk in the event of a poison gas release. Obama orders review of safety and security procedures at chemical plants 2013-08-01T15:07:00Z Deputy national security adviser Rhodes said Washington now believed 100 to 150 people had been killed by government poison gas attacks on rebels. U.S. considers no-fly zone after Syria crosses nerve gas 'red line' 2013-06-15T01:07:40Z "The symptoms she displayed - unconsciousness, vomiting, pinpoint pupils - they all correspond to poison gas exposure," he says. Saraqeb - scene of Syrian chemical attack? 2013-05-16T15:53:11Z It continued with the rest of the Clone Wars saga… …And most of the Ohma-D’un colony was destroyed by poison gas. What's Terribly, Horribly Wrong With EA's Upcoming Sequel To 'Star Wars: Gungan Frontier' 2013-05-09T18:22:25Z Syrian state television denied government forces had used poison gas and said the accusations were intended to distract a team of United Nations chemical weapons experts which arrived three days ago. Activists say more than 200 killed in gas attack near Damascus 2013-08-21T10:36:02Z The government and rebels each accuse the other of using poison gas, a charge both sides deny. U.S., Russia seek new Syria peace talks; rebels skeptical 2013-05-09T00:51:53Z The Syrian government and the rebels have each accused the other of using poison gas, a charge both sides deny. U.S., Russia seek new Syria peace talks; rebels skeptical 2013-05-08T11:46:07Z Speaking on Sunday del Ponte, a member of a UN panel investigating in Syria, said there were "strong, concrete suspicions" the Syrian rebels had used poison gas. Syria: US says it has no evidence rebel forces used sarin gas 2013-05-06T17:52:13Z Syria is not part of the international treaty that bans poison gas but has said it would never use it in an internal conflict. Israel says 'no winds of war' despite Syria air strikes 2013-05-06T20:31:46Z Assad's officials have said they would never use poison gas - if they had it - against Syrians. Activists say more than 200 killed in gas attack near Damascus 2013-08-21T10:36:02Z Iran counts itself as the biggest victim of chemical weapons attacks in recent history, saying up to 100,000 Iranians were exposed to the effects of Iraqi poison gas during the two neighbors' 1980-88 war. Iran says use of chemical arms by anyone in Syria is "red line" 2013-04-30T11:31:36Z Syria is not part of an international treaty that bans poison gas but has said it would never use chemical weapons in an internal conflict. U.S., Russia seek new Syria peace talks; rebels skeptical 2013-05-08T11:46:07Z Heat – “Is this anything to do with USA, or Israel”Is this your way of saying that it is OK for the Syrian Army to use poison gas on its citizens? A thick 'Red Line' on Syria 2013-04-25T20:49:12Z Ban said it is "a matter of principle" to investigate all allegations and not just a case in which Syria alleges that the rebels used poison gas. UN: Chemical investigators ready to go to Syria 2013-04-09T05:00:58Z Ban said it is "a matter of principle" to investigate all allegations and not just a case in which Syria alleges that rebels used poison gas. UN: Chemical investigators ready to go to Syria 2013-04-08T11:47:13Z Death from the air and rains of poison gas were the greatest fears long before atomic weapons, and the notion of a pre-emptive first strike was developed with these weapons, not with nuclear. Imagine There's No Fear 2013-03-24T04:02:41Z World War 1, the characteristic smells of poison gases alerted soldiers to the ominous events that were to follow. Chemists and bad smells (and sulfur): A productive pairing 2013-01-25T19:15:02.620Z Another might be fear that the aliens would retaliate with even more devastating weapons, in the same way that no one used poison gas in World War II for fear of the consequences. Why Don't We Nuke the Aliens in Xcom? 2013-01-23T16:22:54Z It was rocketed by the Iraqis in the 1980s; a million casualties, including 100,000 poison gas victims, were taken in that war. Joe Klein: Chuck Hagel and the Pro-Israel Lobby 2013-01-08T19:35:31Z Yielding to American warnings, the Iraqis did not employ poison gas. Victory Over Iraq in 1991 Was Swift, but Flawed 2013-01-01T03:22:56Z During the war he synthesized poison gases at the University of Chicago, exposure to which twice put him in the hospital. Elwood V. Jensen, Pioneer in Breast Cancer Treatment, Dies at 92 2012-12-27T03:53:04Z The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights gathered activist accounts on Sunday of what they said was a poison gas attack in the city of Homs. Israel says has no proof poison gas used in Syria 2012-12-25T11:36:48Z For several days, Western officials have repeatedly focused on what they say is a threat that Assad could use poison gas. Clinton says "desperate" Assad could use chemical arms 2012-12-06T09:47:05Z “Suppose there is an Iranian corporation that secretly supplies poison gas to the current Syrian regime in order to kill tens of thousands of Kurdish citizens,” he said. Supreme Court Opens Session With Human Rights Case 2012-10-01T23:52:38Z He had used poison gas against them in the past, and they feared he would again. Syria Safe Haven? Bad Idea 2012-09-01T19:50:00Z He used poison gas and chemical weapons against Ethiopian tribesmen during Italy's colonial war in what was then called Abyssinia. Row over memorial to Fascist hero 2012-08-15T11:10:23Z In a statement that may have been intended to reassure the world but seemed to have the opposite effect, it said it would not use poison gas against rebels, only against external threats. Syria sends armored column to Aleppo, strikes from air 2012-07-25T00:49:22Z Syria, which has not signed the international chemical weapons treaty banning the use of poison gas, says it would never use such weapons on its own people. Clinton says "desperate" Assad could use chemical arms 2012-12-06T09:47:05Z Someone said something about poison gas, and teachers and students began to panic. Toxic Panic 2012-07-09T05:00:00Z The ideal of the bayonet, of the bombshell, of poison gas and grenades which are hurled down on peaceful cities, the ideal of submarine warfare, that is something quite different. The Future Belongs to the People 2012-03-03T03:00:19.037Z Therefore he takes the highest skill of his hand and the subtlest wit of his brain, and uses them to manufacture poison gases. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z In one bit of good news, the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on Saturday it had inspected Libya's declared stash of ingredients for making poison gas and found the stockpile intact. Massive munitions stockpiles unguarded in eastern Libya 2011-11-05T17:32:28Z Moreover, this man, who was a chemist, had invented a deadly poison gas, the formula of which he sold to the German Government just previous to the war. The Secret Toll 2011-09-12T02:00:26.853Z Mohammed, the plain-spoken police chief, said 27 members of his family, including his wife, two children, parents and eight siblings died when Sad dam's forces deployed poison gas against Kurd in 1988, killing thousands. Iraqi-Kurd force to take over in Kirkuk after U.S. withdrawal 2011-07-27T11:45:07Z These watch dogs must learn to give a signal when they scent poison gas or hear the enemy creeping up. Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z Now it's a matter of cannon, and machine guns, and liquid fire, and poison gases, and all the rest of it. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z He was invited to brief members of the California Legislature on a bill that would enable prisoners to donate their organs and die by anesthesia instead of poison gas or the electric chair. Dr. Jack Kevorkian Dies at 83; Backed Assisted Suicide 2011-06-03T14:18:19Z The employment by the huns of poison gases and long-range cannon is a parallel case. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z Awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on ammonia, he also feared arrest as a war criminal for his poison gas research. Tragic chemistry 2011-04-11T23:27:46Z The probe will seek help from Arab and foreign experts because the protesters and medical volunteers said police used “poison gas” and not only tear gas, the report said. Qaddafi Forces Advance as West Weighs Arab No-Fly Zone Call 2011-03-13T02:50:01Z What would she do, alone and anguished in this quiet home while he was battling at the front in a rain of shells, of poison gas, of liquid fire? Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z The probe will seek help from Arab and foreign experts because the protesters and medics said police used “poison gas” and not only tear gas, the report said. Arab League Urges No-Fly Zone as Qaddafi Forces Attack Rebels 2011-03-12T21:29:01Z There was a vapour of poison gas about these fields, not strong enough to kill, but making one's eyes and skin smart. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z When the Germans first used poison gas against our troops, and the War Office asked for half a million respirators, wagon-loads of them arrived the next day. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z For example, if the enemy, contrary to agreement, uses poison gas in warfare, it is lawful to use poison gas against him. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z At first, the dark mass in the sky appeared to some to be poison gas. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z His army was accused of using poison gas in that conflict, a grim foreshadowing of Saddam Hussein’s domestic tactics. Op-Ed Columnist: The Devil We Know 2011-01-31T03:09:55Z Every night now they go up again with more food for men and guns through places where there are now shell-craters in the roads, and the reek of poison gas. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z Every Briton may thank God that the Canadians were where they were when the cloud of poison gas sent the Turcos fleeing in panic to the rear. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z Like the country before Guillamont, the country before Guinchy was slashed and gouged and seared, and the air had the sickening taste of gunpowder, poison gas and the corruption of the body. The Irish on the Somme Being a Second Series of 'The Irish at the Front' 2011-01-12T03:00:32.843Z They have sought to disrupt the sale of Chinese missile technology to Pakistan, the cables show, and questioned Indian officials about chemical industry exports that could be used to make poison gas. U.S. Strains to Stop Arms Flow 2010-12-06T22:19:00Z Most obviously, there were the weapons: dreadnoughts and aircraft carriers, rockets and missiles, poison gas, and atomic bombs -- the list is a long one. The end of (military) history? 2010-07-29T15:45:00Z Authorities have so far failed to determine what caused girls and teachers at the schools to fall suddenly unconscious, but say they suspect it is an as-yet-undetermined poison gas released by opponents of girls' education. More Afghan schoolgirls ill in suspected gas attack 2010-05-04T15:50:00Z It was the deadly poison gas chlorine, which when taken into the lungs sets up acute bronchitis and causes its victims to die in horrible agony. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z "Once again we call upon the Iraqi people and government to be united and serve the Iraqi people and families of those killed in poison gas attack." 2010-01-25T20:15:00Z Majid was a cousin of Saddam Hussein, and earned his nickname after his use of poison gas. 2010-01-17T09:08:00Z Majeed, a cousin of Saddam's who earned his nickname because of his use of poison gas, already faces death sentences in several other cases. 2010-01-17T08:18:00Z Majeed, a cousin of Saddam's who earned his nickname because of his use of poison gas, was executed by hanging, the government said in a statement. 2010-01-25T14:44:00Z Never before had poison gas been used in this manner on the battlefield. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z The enemy started it by a morning raid in a driving wet snow, preceded by heavy gunfire, intermixed with poison gas. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. The introduction of liquid fire and poison gas. Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 1 The First Twelve Months of War Are your own people reasonable when they slaughter each other with guns and poison gas? Tahara Among African Tribes The Ogrum, creatures of the dawn world, in spite of their planes and their poison gas, had no real knowledge of science, of the laws of cause and effect. The Lost Warship You already know that when the poison gas rolled down on the French trenches and drove the panic-stricken Turcos in headlong flight, a great breach of four miles yawned in the Allied line. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z The Germans had every reason to wish that they had never introduced poison gas in warfare, for as employed by the British it had become a far deadlier destructive weapon than in their own hands. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. They reached the valley floor some distance above the fumerole and the clouds of poison gas; and the march began. Brood of the Dark Moon His former life of adventure in the open air made him all the more susceptible to the poison gases. The Boy With the U.S. Miners And tanks of cyanogen were so arranged that the poison gas could be sent gushing into the cage at any time. Stamped Caution High-explosive shells and poison gas—these were the weapons which they believed would give them victory. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z An all—night bombardment, which sent a deluge of shells, many of them of poison gas, into the American positions, preceded it. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. His breath still whistled in his throat; the poison gas had nearly done for him. Brood of the Dark Moon He was showered with weapons, ranging from Stone-Age axes to modern high-powered rifles, peppered with hand grenades, drowned in acid, suffocated in poison gas. Diplomatic Immunity It destroyed all wire communications and flooded battery emplacements and machine gun posts with every brand of poison gas known to German kultur. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" Shells and bombs containing poison gases were also used by the Germans on this part of the line. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z Through a short rubber hose a fluid attacks and dissipates the poison gases. With the French in France and Salonika These home pirates are more destructive of civilization than poison gases or high explosives. History of Human Society Clouds of poison gas filled the once sweet and vital air of spring time and summer mornings. Why I Preach the Second Coming On the first day of the attack alone, twelve thousand explosive, incendiary and poison gas shells were hurled in amongst the hospitals in Soissons. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" When the Germans were advancing behind their waves of poison gas, Private Lynn, though almost overcome by the deadly fumes, rushed to his machine gun without waiting to put on his respirator. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z Proof against the poison gas, the hideous monsters were, and invulnerable to shot and shell. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 There was an officer in my carriage to-day ... going on to Whimple ... and he told me about poison gas ... the men died in frightful agony, he said ... and then he talked about machine guns.... Changing Winds A Novel A man-made gale, upon whose wings the poison gas would spread northward again, carrying unlimited destruction with it. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 Above the ruins of the hamlet, stood the steeple of the old stone church, from which it was customary to ring the alarm when the Germans sent over their shells of poison gas. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" It contained engines for making poison gas, machines for throwing liquid fire, scores of small fortresses, and underground passages which enabled the defenders to get to the rear of the attackers. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z The Argentine Government had sent a force of twenty thousand men against them, armed with cannon, machine-guns, tanks, airplanes, poison gas, and the new death-ray. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 It would kill him, strike him down as though by invisible poison gas. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 They indicate hydrogen by the letter H. O always means oxygen to the chemist; C means carbon; and Cl means chlorine, the poison gas so much used in the World War. Common Science They invaded small forests that the enemy had flooded with poison gas. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" Then he added, "I have done much with poison gas as well as with rare drugs." A Yankee Flier Over Berlin The goat alone among mammals reacts to poisons almost identically as human beings react, and the poison gases of the war had precisely the same effect upon him as upon the soldiers. The Goat-gland Transplantation As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley, M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations Upon Men and Women All these were checked by the Germans who passed to the offensive themselves in April, and made a new attack about Ypres, marked by the first use of poison gas. The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War And salt is neither dangerous to put in water like sodium, nor is it a greenish poison gas like chlorine. Common Science He points out that all war is barbarous in essence, and that a man who died in torture from the effects of poison gas might have suffered equal agony from a shrapnel wound. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War "I love my fellow men," he said, "and I killed them in thousands in the last war—I, and my science, and my poison gas." Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 The poison gas hid them from their pursuers for the moment and they were through the gate, all three. The Copper-Clad World The machines were a Soviet invention—they were beyond anything human—they were harmless—they would wipe out civilization—poison gas—blasts of fire like that which had enveloped the army flyer.... Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 You see they are too uncertain—like the poison gas the Germans first used. Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam Shell-shock and insanity, poison gas and slow strangulation, liquid fire and poison shells. Great Britain at War He must suppose that every evening, after a light repast of poison gas and shrapnel, they are made to go to sleep in a trench under a permanent drizzle of shell-fire. What I Saw in America Clearly poison gas, if such it was, had only recently been used to guard the approach to the cave. The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery They wade through poison gas and fiery chemicals and seem to enjoy them. Hellhounds of the Cosmos There must be no holding up of the advance once it had begun, because of poison gas. Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam Now, how about the poison gas; feel like going through it?” Great Britain at War A form of life that existed in the poison gases, where men would die within minutes. Wanted—7 Fearless Engineers! The poison gas these men sprayed out of cylinders to keep us away so we wouldn't find there was gold in the cave. The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery At times they released poison gases, and not infrequently themselves burst, instead of withdrawing, in a veritable explosion of disease germs, requiring absolute quarantine by the Han medical department. The Airlords of Han As the war advanced from poison gas to piracy against neutrals, it grew more and more plain that the scientifically organised State was not increasing in popularity. Eugenics and Other Evils Thinking right away of poison gas, I jerked away a little, dispersing the cloud. The Night of the Long Knives |
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