"Churchill was an expert on the effects of mustard gas—he knew that it could blind and kill, especially children and infants. Gas spreads a “lively terror,” he pointed out in an earlier memo; he didn’t understand the prevailing squeamishness about its use: “I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes" [August, 1920, about Iraq]
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker
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