Monday, April 20, 2015

Full circle: Chlorine now chemical weapon of choice in Syria

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Exactly one century ago Wednesday, German troops opened the taps on a line of chlorine tanks to send a poisonous cloud drifting across no man's land and into World War I Allied trenches. The gas blinded soldiers and made them retch, vomit and choke, combining with bodily fluids to destroy their lungs. Sponcer page

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