Chemical Weapons
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What is known as modern chemical warfare began during World War I. Overall, about 113,000 tons of chemical weapons were used in World War I killing around 92,000 and a total of 1.3 million casualties. After World War I, many governments wished to ban chemical weapons because they killed and injured people. During World War II no chemical weapons were used in battle but large amounts of a new chemical weapons developed by the Germans were discovered. These new chemical weapons were known as nerve agents. These included tabun, sarin, and soman, all of which were developed in the thirties and early forties. The major use of chemical weapons at the current time was in the form of terrorist attack. This was the case in March of 1995, in Tokyo, Japan, when a religious cult released a form of sarin nerve gas in Tokyo's subway system during morning rush hour. The attack killed 11 people and injured over 5500 people...