“A brief history of chemical warfare” By Harold Maass For more than 2‚000 years. As early as 600 B.C.‚ the Athenians poisoned the wells of the Spartans‚ who later tried lobbing burning sulfur pitch over the walls of Athens‚ hoping to fill the city with toxic smoke. Genghis Khan used that same trick‚ catapulting burning sulfur pitch during his siege of fortified cities around A.D. 1200. Over the centuries‚ various armies put poisons on arrows and in bullets to make them more lethal. But it wasn’t
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Weapons in WW1 Water cooled - via a jacket around the barrel which held approximately one gallon - the Vickers was loaded from a 250-round fabric belt mounted on a tripod. A rubber hose leading to a container condensed steam from the jacket as a means of minimising water wastage. Although the predominant British machine gun in 1914 and for much of 1915 - it remained so for British imperial troops sited on far-flung battlefields‚ innovations in machine gun design invariably showing up first on the
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from them. The whole idea of the trenches was to gain and to give protection from enemy lines who would want to attack their enemies once seen‚ so trenches were a good hiding spot hence other various reasons as well. September 1914 was when trench warfare began and ended in August 1918. In the area of the River Somme on the Western Front‚ the ground is deathly and is easily tunnelled. The trench sides would dissolve easily after rain so the ideas would have to be changed and wood‚ sandbags or any other
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Tavaski Gordon December 17‚ 2013 HS 251 Unit 14 Paper Bio-Chemical Weapons The use of biological and chemical weapons has been practiced for many centuries. It started from the late 400s BC up to the twenty first century‚ and is still currently being practiced today. Ever since these weapons were introduced‚ they have been used by individuals‚ groups‚ or countries to advance certain agendas. These agendas are often for military purposes (war) to gain a tactical advantage over an opposition;
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infants". Above are a few of the terms used by the Constantinople patriarch Photius to describe Vikings and their actions; but similarly horrific descriptions of the Vikings are to be found in numerous sources‚ Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh and the writings of Alcuin of Lindisfarne to name just two. To a large extent this image remains‚ even today‚ the stereotypical image of Scandinavians during the "Viking Age". However this is a very one-sided view‚ and ignores the full picture. A society where everyone
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HIST 1001 FATher ZEPS Section 102 date Revolution in weapons: initiated by machine guns and the trench warfare Europe remained in peace for the whole century after Napoleonic invasion in 1814 mainly due to balance of power and principle of intervention‚ proposed by Metternich during a congress in Vienna 1815. By the end of 19th century however‚ high pressure and drive for conflicts were accumulated around major European powers‚ mainly due to sense of nationalism and universally appealing theory
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Most scholars would agree that Napoleonic Warfare began a transformation towards a modern form of warfare that still exist. The evidence shows that warfare in the Napoleonic Era is fundamentally similar to warfare practiced today. The French Revolution and subsequent Napoleonic Wars revolutionized military strategy and military operations. The Napoleonic era introduced three fundamental changes essential and relevant to how many militaries function and fight today. One change is the shift from a
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Nuclear Weapons Since‚ a long period of time we have the invention of nuclear weapons of GLOBAL peace and constancy. Is it really right to say that nuclear weapons are peacemakers? Or they are killing weapons? Nuclear weapons are a volatile device that deduces its destructive force from the reactions of nuclear‚ either nuclear fission or a combination of both fission and fusion. Both chemical reaction releases huge quantities of energy from comparatively small amount matter. Simply‚ nuclear weapons
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be fighting in the trenches back in World War One. Trench warfare was one of the biggest parts of World War One‚ it is why World War One is sometimes referred to as a ‘War of inches’. It is referred to that because taking shelter from enemy fire they would have built these parallel lines of trenching around with tunnels connecting the two
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RELIGION ESSAY Nuclear weapons are the only type of weapon in existence that have the capacity to annihilate the human species and countless other species. Weapons are a problem with the catholic tradition as they go against the catholic virtue of peace and should be banned. The catholic virtue of peace is completely thrown away when it comes to nuclear weapons as they show anger and violent towards people and that’s not what it is about. If nuclear weapons were to be banned it would prevent death
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