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Poison gas is a vapor or gas that is used to harm enemies during warfare. Poison gas was first used in 1915 by the Central Powers (Germany) during World War 1.

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In 1915, the first type of poison gas that was invented was chlorine gas and it was used against French colonial divisions in Ypres, Belgium. Later on, in 1917, the Central Powers (Germany) introduced mustard gas which was much stronger than chlorine gas. Mustard gas was said to blister the skin, eyes, and lungs.

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After the first attack in Ypres, Belgium, France and Great Britain started developed their own poison gas and gas masks to protect themselves from chemical attacks from other countries.

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When the United Stated joined WW1 in 1917, they also were developing poison gas. During the war, President Harry S. Truman used chemical weapons against the Central Powers in 1918.

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In WW1, there was over more than 100,000 tons of poison gas, 500,000 troops were wounded and 30,000 deaths. After WW1, the Geneva Protocol of 1925 was created to ban the use of chemical weapons during warfare, but it did not prevent other countries from producing them. Many countries kept producing them and keeping them reserved. Poison gas and other chemical weapons were used again in the 1930s and in WW2.

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Summary:
One of the first types of world war technology was chlorine gas. In 1914, Fritz Haber (chemist), started to help the German Army by experimenting with chlorine gas, which was the type of gas he wanted to be used during trench warfare. In April 1915, 150 tons of chlorine gas was used against the French Army at Ypres. Chlorine gas would destroy the respiratory system causing the victim to be in pain and die of a slow death by asphyxiation. Weather played a very important role in gas attacks or in chemical warfare. On September 25th, the British Army tried to launch a gas attack, but the wind ended up blowing it back towards British troops. In 1916, gas shells were invented. At the time armies did not have gas masks, so they used cotton masks or handkerchiefs that were soaked in urine because the urine would neutralize the chlorine in the gas. Eventually, gas masks were created and provided better protection against the gas.

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First World War tech: Chlorine Gas & Gas Masks

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How did Poison Gas Impact the War? Was it Good or Bad? Is it Ethical to Use This Type of Weapon?

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How did Poison Gas Impact the War? Was it Good or Bad? Is it Ethical to Use This Type of Weapon?

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Poison gas impacted WW1 greatly. It made attacking large armies easier. It may not have had as much as an impact as the tank or the submarine, but at the time it was a good thing to have to make fighting on land easier. I personally think poison gas was good and bad. It was good because it made warfare easier, but it was really bad because it caused a lot of deaths and it was used later on in WW2 for the wrong reasons. Poison gas is not an ethical weapon to use because it not only caused many deaths and when it was first made, people had no defense to it. Let's say some countries started using poison gas again, it won't only be more lethal than before, but more defenses against it would have to be improved as well.