Indian infantry (58th Rifles) in Fauquissart, France, August 1915. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_infantry_in_the_trenches,_prepared_against_a_gas_attack_(Photo_24-300).jpg">H. D. Girdwood/British Library/Public Domain</a>
Indian infantry (58th Rifles) in Fauquissart, France, August 1915. CREDIT: H. D. Girdwood/British Library/Public Domain

The Living Legacy of WWI: Chemical Weapons from the Great War to Syria, with Zach Dorfman

May 1, 2018

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"What you stopped seeing after World War I was great power conflict involving chemical weapons, and what you started seeing was asymmetric conflicts or regional conflicts that involved chemical weapons. That actually disturbed me even more because what I started realizing was that as time went on the weaker you were, the more likely that another state would use chemical weapons against you or your people."

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