Chemical weapons were first used on a large-scale during the First World War, a conflict that also came to be known as 'The Chemists' War'. <br /><br />German and French troops threw shells at each other containing chlorine and phosgene, causing many who inhaled the gases to die of asphyxiation. <br /><br />Some 100,000 men lost their lives and a further one million lived with the after-effects. <br /><br />...<br />http://www.euronews.net/
