How the Shocking Use of Gas in World War I Led Nations to Ban It
The Germans were the first to successfully weaponize gas in World War Iâto horrifying effect.
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The Germans were the first to successfully weaponize gas in World War Iâto horrifying effect.
At the dawn of the 20th century, the world’s military powers worried that future wars would be decided by chemistry as much as artillery, so they signed a pact at the Hague Convention of 1899 to ban the use of poison-laden projectiles the sole object of which is the diffusion of asphyxiating or deleterious gases.