One landfill site in Wales is said to contain "warfare chemicals" including mustard gas Toxic waste including mustard gas is buried among more than 1,500 disused landfill sites across Wales.
The global chemical weapons watchdog will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss the situation in Syria over concerns about the country's stockpile of toxic chemicals.
Ignoring the Geneva Protocol, which it signed seven years earlier, Italy used chemical weapons with devastating effect. Most effective was mustard gas dropped in bombs or sprayed from airplanes.
It was quickly copied by the Germans as both sides sought chemical agents which would seep into trenches and bunkers. But the most infamous - and deadliest - was mustard gas, in reality an oily ...