Poison Gas In WWI
By : Dylan Maus
Introduction To Chemical Weapons
Chemical weapons in World War I were mainly used to demoralize, injure, and kill entrenched defenders, against whom the indiscriminate and generally slow-moving or static nature of gas clouds would be most effective.
Impact And Consequence Of The Weapon
Four percent of combat deaths caused by gas.
~16 Million people were killed during the war. Out of that number ~560,000 were killed by poison gas during World War I |
Around 36,600 tons of phosgene were manufactured during the war, out of a total of 190,000 tons for all chemical weapons, making it second only to chlorine (93,800 tons) in the quantity manufactured
- Germany 18,100 tons - France 15,700 tons - United Kingdom 1,400 tons (although they also used French stocks) - United States 1,400 tons (although they also used French stocks) |
Connections To Today
Now it is called Chemical Warfare, They are inert agents that come in four categories: choking, blister, blood and nerve.
The agents are organized into several categories according to the manner in which they affect the human body. Now the main type of poison gas we use is Nerve Gas. Witch targets the person nerves and slowly puts the person out of commission. The 7 Gas Agents
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