Sailors were drenched in liquid mustard gas, or sulfur mustard, which floated in a foot-thick layer on the water. People had never been so immersed in mustard gas, says Susan Smith, a historian of ...

More than 1,000 tons of sulfur mustard gas were used by the Ba’athist regime against the Iranian troops and unarmed people. On 28 June 1987, Iraqi warplanes dropped mustard gas bombs on rural areas in ...

TASS/. Russia is satisfied with conclusions included in the OPCW mission’s report that sulphur mustard gas was used in the Syrian village of Maarat Umm-Hawsh in the Aleppo region, Russia’s ...

Mustard gas, or sulfur mustard, is one of the most harmful chemical warfare agents, causing severe blistering of the skin and mucous membranes upon contact. To enhance battlefield detection of ...