Germany warfare

Discovered in the late 1930s in Germany as improved poisonous insecticides, organophosphorus ChEIs were developed as chemical warfare agents (e.g. sarin, soman, and tabun) and were more recently employed in the 1995 terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway system [5]. 

By the end of the war, poison gases filled one in four artillery shells used by both sides. In military terms, however, poison gas failed. Since masks provided quite effective protection, poison gas was never a decisive weapon on the Western Front the fatality rate for firearms was ten times higher. Poison gas was not used in the next world war. In fact, if World War I had continued, chemical warfare would have backfired on the Germans. Prevailing winds blow eastward, and Germany had run out of mask material and had no fabric to reclothe soldiers blistered by corrosive gases. 

Fritz Haber is a major contributor to human welfare through finding the means to convert elemental nitrogen into ammonia. That is the heroic side of Fritz Haber. He is also known as the father of chemical warfare based on his development of chlorine as a lethal gas during World War 1. Haber was Germany s tsar of gas warfare. He went to the front personally to oversee the placement of chlorine tanks as gas warfare weapons. 

By April 1915, Germany introduced gas warfare. In 1917, the Secretary of the Interior charged the Bureau of Mines with working on gas problems, and the Bureau engaged the Chemistry Committee of the National Research Council (NRC) to help initiate the work. The NRC Committee along with others in academe and the chemical industry constituted what ultimately became the Chemical Warfare Service of the U.S. Army. The gases and protective equipment were produced at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland and New York City, respectively (Skolnik Reese, 1976). 

See Chemical Warfare Agent H (or HS), known in the US as Mustard Casf in France as Yperite and in Germany as Celbkreuz or Lost... 

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