How Effective Were Chemical Weapons in WWI?

Описание: The use of chemical weapons in WWI has through time become an iconic aspect But how effective were these gases compared to other weapons? A quick look at the figures gives surprising results!

Script:
"Of all the horrifying weapons of WWI, chemical weapons were the most feared, the most indiscriminate, and the most dishonorable, as it was the least dignified of deaths.

Yet of the 20 million combat deaths The Great War, only 90,198 soldiers on all sides (or 0.45%) died from chemical weapons,

Meanwhile only 1,230,853 (or 5.86%) of the 21 million wounded were from gas attacks, revealing that chemical weapons were not the most effective weapons, physiologically, in the conflict.

It was the psychological impact of gas warfare that made these weapons so devastating - an impact far greater than their actual efficacy compared to artillery and machine gun fire."

Subjects include: Chemical Warfare, WWI, Chlorine gas, Phosgene gas, Mustard gas, statistics.

Sources:
https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/abo...
https://www.kumc.edu/school-of-medici...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-ga...
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Porta...
https://www.denix.osd.mil/rcwmprogram...