Artillery fire on both sides was constant this. Entire villages were wiped off the map and. Never before had so many soldiers been killed in such a limited area. Or Dead Mans Hill was the scene of particularly bitter fighting. At the end of the Battle One Of The Hills Two summits was ten meters lower than it was before. Served as a laboratory for testing new weapons the german army fired poison gas in shells here for the first time. This allowed for more accurate targeting. The effect on french troops was devastating. The battle lasted from february to december one Nine Hundred Sixteen. A total of about Sixty Million shells were fired. When these missions corrode the casing comes off of it a lot of them youre left with stuff like t. N. T. High explosive which is a percentage of so now you have the constituent weight on the bottom of the ocean which will continually. Put stuff in the environment like that for the next thousand years. These materials accumulate in the ecosystem and pose
the issue increasingly because. nature is more fragile or and warfare is more robust and powerful. in the late one nine hundred seventy s. the use of agent orange was sharply restricted by the united nations but the u.s. military continued to deploy weapons that contain other toxic substances. doug rockey is a retired u.s. army major and former director of the military s depleted uranium project. in one nine hundred ninety one during the first gulf war rocky was assigned to. paratroops on how to respond to biological chemical and nuclear warfare.