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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