Decades after the U.S. government exposed service members to chemical weapons in secret experiments, lawmakers have advanced a measure intended to make it easier for those World War II veterans to ...

NEOSHO, Mo. -- A World War II veteran who says he was exposed to mustard gas experiments at a one-time southwestern Missouri military camp has had his disability claim denied for the fourth time in ...

FILE - The main entrance of the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), is seen in The Hague, Netherlands on May 5, 2017. An international investigative team ...

Let’s do a little ethical experiment here. In World War I, the Germans used mustard gas on civilians, and it helps them. Do you then decide, OK, we’re going to use mustard gas in civilians? What Trump ...

Long-term health effects of mustard gas exposure can include “chronic respiratory disease, repeated respiratory infections” and other symptoms, according to the CDC. “I never knew a healthy dad ...

In the end, the mustard gas shipped to Bari proved unnecessary. The Nazis did not employ chemical weapons on the battlefield (though contrary to what President Trump’s press secretary suggested, they ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: While nuclear weapons are viewed as a strategic deterrent by North Korea, chemical weapons likely have an operation role in warfare. In recent years, North... Here’s ...

To understand the predicament of World War II veterans exposed to mustard gas, take a look at what happened to another set of American veterans who were exposed to a different toxic chemical. Last ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court on Wednesday ruled that a company must pay compensation to five Iranian victims of chemical weapons attacks by Iraq in the 1980s after the company did not ...

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THE HAGUE, NetherlandsTHE HAGUE, Netherlands — An international investigative team said Thursday that its probe into a 2015 attack in Syria found “reasonable grounds to believe” that the Islamic State ...

If you want to get into the head of a stark raving mad poet, come view the work of Scott Hilton’s “photo-opera” called The Mustard Gas Phantasies of Wilfred Owen. He uses an old photographic method to ...