Russia staged sweeping drills to test the country's readiness for a possible nuclear war. As part of the exercise, children were taught to put on gas masks and emergency responders in hazmat suits ...

Poison gas was first used during WWI and about half of all the lives claimed by chemical weapons during the war were Russian. After Germany started using chlorine on the battlefield, Moscow ...

Wounds and mustard gas could not stop Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Orlando Petty in 1918, but they may have caught up with him in 1932.

Cut adrift from Europe, its biggest customer, the gas sector needs to find new markets. A $6.6 billion fall in state revenues from the industry points to the economic cost of the war in Ukraine.

In the early years of the war a gas mask was an ever-present accoutrement - an unfashionable, square, cardboard box - or it was until Woolworths came up with a variety of alternative metal ...

The Ukrainian infantryman, call sign "Ray", said he quickly pulled on his gas mask after a Russian drone flying above his trench on the eastern front dropped a tear gas grenade.

Two Dutch intelligence agencies said on Friday that Russia is increasing its use of prohibited chemical weapons ...

Patriotism, at times, demands odd sacrifices from Americans. During WWI, it asked for peach pits -- and lots of them.

Russia billed the U.S. $660,000 for its aid flight last month that included thousands of pieces of equipment not typically used by hospitals, including gas masks.

Ukraine leaders have called for more gas masks to be sent to their country More than 65,000 gas masks made in Wiltshire are to be sent out to troops in Ukraine to help them defend their country.

Claiming that some Americans were readying for war, a Russian state-owned channel explained to citizens how to store food in bomb shelters.

I started school in 1944. We were all given a gas mask which we kept in a special box. We used to have drills to practise how to put them on in case there was bombing. A particular thing that I ...