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1754-1767 Britain Blankets used to wrap British smallpox French-Indian Wars

victims are given to hostile Indian tribes


1914 France and France first uses tear gas in grenades and World War I
Germany Germany retaliates with tear gas in artillery
shells
1915-1918 England, Use of chlorine gas in battle World War I
France,
Germany
1918 Germany Anthrax and equine diseases are used to World War I
infect livestock and feed for export to Allied
forces; Phosgene and chloropicrin shells
are used against American forces
1919 Britain Use of Adamsite against the Bolsheviks Russian Civil War
1922-1927 Spain Chemical weapons are used against Rif Rif War
rebels in Spanish Morocco
1936 Italy Mustard gas is used against Abyssinians Italian-Abyssinia War
1937 Japan An offensive biological weapons program Inception of Biological
uses prisoners in human experiments Warfare “Unit 731”
1939 Japan Soviet water supply is poisoned with Nomonhan Incident
intestinal typhoid bacteria at the former
Mongolian border
1940 Japan Rice and wheat mixed with plague carrying World War II
fleas are dropped over China and
Manchuria
1942 Germany Nazis began using Zyklon B (hydrogen World War II
cyanide) in gas chambers for the mass
murder of concentration camp prisoners
1945 Germany A large reservoir in Bohema is poisoned World War II
with sewage
1945 United States Two atomic bombs are dropped on Japan, World War II
one in Hisroshima and one on Nagasaki
1962-1970 United States Tear gas and four types of defoliant, Vietnam War
including Agent Orange, are used in
Vietnam
1963-1967 Egypt Chemical weapons are used against Yemen Yemen War
1970s South Africa Anthrax and cholera are provided to Rhodesian Bush War
Rhodesian troops for use against guerilla
rebels
1975-1983 Soviet Union Alleged use of Yellow Rain by Soviet- Cold War
backed forces in Laos and Kampuchea
1983-1988 Iraq Mustard gas, hydrogen cyanide, and nerve Iran-Iraq War
agent tabun are used against Iran and the
Kurds

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