[Default] I missed the Staff meeting, but the Memos showed that Howard
Brazee wrote on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:17:47 -0600 in
soc.history.what-if :
>On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 22:04:08 +1000, SolomonW
>wrote:
>
>>If you follow this thread, I think it does not seem to led very far into a
>>believable use of chemical warfare in ancient time.
>>
>>http://groups.google.com/group/soc.history.what-if/browse_thread/thread/a9ec75e9f2911c42/59e526362053e27?q=chemical+warfare+solomonw#059e526362053e27
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>>During the American Civil War on both sides proposals were made for the use
>>of chlorine, in battle. These proposals led no-where partly due to the
>>undeveloped state of the chemical industry on both sides.
>>
>>When do you feel is the earliest that a credible major use of chemical
>>weapon could have been developed and used?
>>
>
>The use of chemicals arguably would include explosives and poisons
>going back to ancient times. Nothing special about chlorine as a
>cusp.
Poison "gasses" - toxic smokes ... those are the ones we are
looking for, and a means of inflicting them on the enemy.
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