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
bodies of water in europe contain quantities of cyanide atom zite mustard gas and tabung a nerve agent. two hundred fifty thousand tons of conventional and chemical weapons have been dumped in the north channel between ireland and scotland. one hundred fifty thousand tons of munitions have been disposed of in the barents and kara seized in the arctic ocean it s a time bomb that s been ticking for nearly sixty years. scientists suspect that along canada s east coast these toxic materials have long since found their way into the food chain. the effects of possibly contaminated seafood on local residents have not yet been studied. terry long is trying to track down as many of these munitions as he can. a me. his research took him to washington d.c.