DefenceTalkFighter aircraft, tanks, submarines, heavy artillery: the horrors of warfare between 1914 and 1918 were a crucible for deadly technological innovation, including the poison gas that came to symbolize the barbarity of the conflict. When World War I broke out in 1914, no European army was prepared for the heavily defensive conflict that was to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/from-gas-to-submarines-great-war-was-crucible-for-deadly-innovation-58789/

DefenceTalkThe potential for terrorist use of chemical agents is a noted concern highlighted by the Tokyo sarin gas attacks of 1995. The events of September 11, 2001, increased congressional attention towards reducing the vulnerability of the United States to such unconventional attacks. The possibility that terrorist groups might obtain insecure chemical weapons led to increased […]https://www.defencetalk.com/chemical-weapons-a-summary-report-of-characteristics-and-effects-49118/

DefenceTalkSyria rebels possess ground-to-ground missiles and sarin, and a UN report on chemical weapons use shows they carried out attacks near Damascus, a high-ranking Syrian security source said Tuesday. “I categorically deny that we have used sarin gas, for the reason that we had no interest in doing so. We were winning in the battlefield,” […]https://www.defencetalk.com/syria-security-official-says-rebels-have-missiles-sarin-gas-49100/