A British instructional video shows civilians how to respond to a possible German gas attack. The video was produced by the Home Office and released within days of Britain's declaration of war on Germany. Anticipating air raids, the British took several precautions in the months and years leading up to the war, including the establishment of the Air Raid Wardens Service in 1937, the distribution of gas masks and more. Read more about it here: https://bit.ly/3P5sEOE © IWM COI 850 | Imperial War M

The U.S. has destroyed the last of its declared chemical weapons stockpile, President Joe Biden said on Friday, ending a decades-long effort to eliminate the deadly weapons first used on a large scale in World War I. As part of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which was ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1997, the U.S. and other signatories are required to destroy their chemical weapons stockpile by September 30, 2023. The U.S. has been destroying its remaining stockpiles at U.S. Army Pueblo Chemica