Poison gas

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[edit] Poison Gas in Southern Victory

Poison Gas was weaponized by Germany during the Great War and shared with the United States. It was quickly copied by Entente nations. Originally poison gas was simply highly pressurized chlorine gas shot across a battlefield at enemy positions. By the end of the war, mustard gas was being fired in artillery shells.

In the Second Great War, poison gas had taken on the form of a series of highly potent nerve agents. These were dangerous not only when inhaled but when coming in contact with the skin. Gas was used extensively by both sides in that war and was also used by the Freedom Party in the Confederate States to perpetrate the Population Reduction.

[edit] Poison Gas in Worldwar

Poison Gas was a weapon introduced in World War I and used extensively by both Germany and the Entente. It was so destructive that it was banned from the battlefield in World War II. However, in 1943, when the Race's Conquest Fleet invaded Britain, Prime Minister Winston Churchill authorized the use of both mustard gas and nerve agents to repel the invaders. Afterward, poison gas was used by all Tosevite not-empires for the duration of the conflict. It was not used by the Race until the Race-German War of 1965.

Otto Skorzeny used poison gas to protect his atomic bomb from Mordechai Anielewicz, Heinrich Jäger, and Ludmila Gorbunova in Lodz in 1945.