Essay On Poison Gas

Poison gas is a form of weaponry that was adopted in World War I with the intention of using it to injury, and kill soldiers of the opposing fighting forces. The deadly gases were able to consume the lives of many young soldiers, by being carried in the slow movements of clouds, that released these gases on the soldiers as they passed over. Prior to World War I, this form of weaponry was considered to be uncivilized, but with the stalemates of trench warfare, countries began searching for a new mass weapon, and poison gas became an ideal choice. The French were believed to be the first users of tear-gas grenades on Germans, during the first months of World War I. Though, it wasn't until the Germans had seized and studied the weaponry in great detail, that the revolutionary modifications and uses developed for poison gas. The Germans had adopted and first used poison …show more content…
A tear gas was typically used during close contact battles, and in areas where machine guns were also being actively operated. The use of tear gas caused temporary blindness and irruption to the nasal and throat cavities of the victims. The second type of gas that was used were sternutators this included, chlorine and phosgene gas. The most powerful type of gas was suffocating gas often found in the form of mustard gas. This gas was the most fatal since it resulted in the death of soldiers within hours from external and internal blisters of the body. The use of poison gas was at its full frontier during the early years of the war, because it was completely unheard of and had an element of surprise that had made it such an effective weapon. Though, poison gas never lived up to its expectations of becoming the weapon that would revolutionize the way wars were fought. The weaponry use of poison gas even came to be seen as being inhumane and was banned shortly after the armistice of World War