Trench Warfare and Mustard Gas

   In the picture above it shows trench warfare that was used during the world wars. This was a tactic that  protected the troops from the enemy's line of fire and gave them shelter to stay in. At first, this was a brilliant idea and the opposing team would have never seen this coming, but as people became smarter they figured out what we were doing. When both sides of the war have built trenches and haven't come out of them for face to face combat it, its caused many problems and a "dry patch" in the war. Soon both sides developed new technology to finally put an end to this warfare. It was a new bomb that let off a painful, blinding gas and that was commonly known as Mustard Gas.

       Mustard Gas, also known as sulfur mustards, is a combination of cytotoxic and vesicant chemical warfare agents with that forms large blisters on the exposed skin and in the lungs. Pure sulfur mustards are colorless liquids. When used in impure form, such as warfare agents, they are usually yellow-brown in color and have an odor such as mustard plants, garlic, or horseradish, giving the gas its name. Mustard gas was originally assigned the name LOST, after the scientists Wilhelm Lommel and Wilhelm Steinkopf, who developed a method for the large-scale production of mustard gas for the Imperial German Army in 1916. This gas was thrown into the trenches and when released blinded and killed many people in the trenches ending the stalemate. It was highly effective in bringing a war to a tragic end. This is also why trenches aren't used in wars anymore.