Historical Context & Lessons

Project Sundial was a Cold War concept for a 10,000 megaton hydrogen bomb linked to Edward Teller and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. With ...

Zyklon B was not invented for war. It began as a pesticide, used to control infestations in ships and warehouses. But in the hands of the Nazi regi...

In the panic of chemical attack drills, the humble WWII gas mask felt like salvation—until historians discovered its dark secret. Behind the rubber...

On August 12, 2015, a fire at a Tianjin port warehouse overloaded with oxidizers and toxic chemicals (ammonium nitrate, sodium cyanide, etc.) ignit...

From WWI to Iraq and Lebanon, white phosphorus is a chemical substance with a long history of use and misuse, sparking heated debates about its war...