![]() ![]() Great mustard-coloured blisters, blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying that their throats are closing and they know they will choke." In her autobiography Testament of Youth (1933), nurse Vera Brittain: "I wish those people who talk about going on with this war whatever it costs could see the soldiers suffering from mustard gas poisoning. Soldiers who had been attacked had to be strapped to their beds. Mustard gas causes the skin to blister, induces vomiting and causes internal and external bleeding. Many felt the suffering of the victims in World War I was too barbaric to ignore. The reasons for the condemnation are contentious, however. The protocol stated that use of such weapons had been "justly condemned by the general opinion of the civilised world", despite having been used by both sides. The agreement, adds Politico, was signed " most prominently by those who had used gas in the Great War - Austria, Britain, France, Germany and Russia, (the US signed the protocol, but the Senate did not ratify it until 1975". ![]()
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