gas attacks
Toxic cloud assaults
Gas attacks are military assaults using toxic chemical agents—chlorine, mustard gas, nerve agents—dispersed as vapor or aerosol to poison enemy troops.
The term emerged from World War I trench warfare, where such weapons caused mass casualties and lasting injuries.
Modern international law prohibits chemical weapons, making gas attacks war crimes.
Survivors of the gas attack suffered permanent lung damage.
- phosgeneToxic carbonyl chloride gas
- sarinOrganophosphate chemical weapon
- cloudAtmospheric water vapor mass
- nerve agentsToxic chemicals attacking neurotransmission
- maskFace-worn concealment
no man's land · over the top · Western Front · poison · chemical warfare · Ypres · choking · suffocate · World War I · respiratory distress · Wilfred Owen · shell shock · breath · lung damage · atropine · hiss · chemical burns · shells
- World War Itrenches, trench warfare, eastern front, Western Front, soldiers
- WWItrenches, no man's land, no mans land, trench warfare, armistice
- WWI militarytrenches, ANZAC, trench warfare, Tommies, Western Front
- American WWIdoughboys, General Pershing, Argonne, Western Front, over there
- Western Fronttrenches, battlefields, Ypres, Somme, Verdun
- Chemical Warfarechemical weapons, phosgene, chemical agents, sarin
gas attacksconventional warfare
Armed conflict using standard military forces
artillery bombardment · rifle fire · gunfire · hand-to-hand combat · bayonet charges
gas attacksgas masks
Facial toxin filters
chemical defense · protective equipment · decontamination · protective measures · sheltering
gas attackschemical weapons ban
Treaty forbidding toxic armaments
ceasefire · humanitarian aid · demilitarization · peace negotiations · armistice