The image of a pile of bodies that had just been removed from the gas chambers in Auschwitz is still burned in my mind today. It is still as horrifying to me today as it was when I was eight, when I stumbled upon it, reading an encyclopedia on World War Two. How is it that someone could create something so petrifying, so destructive? How is it that one person’s creation could suck the life from millions, leaving them a pile of skin, flesh, and bone, on the floor? Chemical warfare is an invention the world would be better off without. It is the method of using non-living toxic substances as weapons to harm and destroy people in war. Although not an object, chemical warfare is an invention, as an invention is either an object or a process. Thesis?
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Poisoned darts, arrows, and spears are examples of chemical warfare from that era. Back then, chemical warfare was used to silently kill an individual. The first modern use of chemical warfare was during the reign of King Henry III. In a war against the French, the English used calcium oxide to blind their enemies, and defeat them. The industrialization of chemical warfare started during World War One. The Allies and Axis both mass-produced gases such as mustard gas and phosgene gas. In World War One alone, chemical weapons caused 91,000 deaths. The gas chambers of the Holocaust took about twenty minutes to kill the people inside, and killed 1.2 million people. The reason chemical warfare is used today, and the reason I despise it is, it is a quick and efficient method of mass destruction. During the Vietnam War, the US sprayed Agent Orange, a defoliant, over the jungles, so that they could see their enemies easily from the air. It’s side effect affected both sides. The of offspring people who were exposed it had genetic defects. Theses defects were passed down to later generations, and the effects can still be seen
Poisoned darts, arrows, and spears are examples of chemical warfare from that era. Back then, chemical warfare was used to silently kill an individual. The first modern use of chemical warfare was during the reign of King Henry III. In a war against the French, the English used calcium oxide to blind their enemies, and defeat them. The industrialization of chemical warfare started during World War One. The Allies and Axis both mass-produced gases such as mustard gas and phosgene gas. In World War One alone, chemical weapons caused 91,000 deaths. The gas chambers of the Holocaust took about twenty minutes to kill the people inside, and killed 1.2 million people. The reason chemical warfare is used today, and the reason I despise it is, it is a quick and efficient method of mass destruction. During the Vietnam War, the US sprayed Agent Orange, a defoliant, over the jungles, so that they could see their enemies easily from the air. It’s side effect affected both sides. The of offspring people who were exposed it had genetic defects. Theses defects were passed down to later generations, and the effects can still be seen