A somber anniversary: 100 years of chemical weapons (video)

Reactions presents this sobering look at the chemistry behind the modern world's first chemical weapons.

, --April 20, 2015

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WASHINGTON, — Wednesday, April 22 marks the 100th anniversary of the first large-scale use of chemical weapons in warfare. Some of the best minds in chemistry at that time, including a Nobel Prize winner, used their knowledge of science to build humanity's new weapons of mass destruction.

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