
This section contains the eleven pages that make up chapter one, "Introduction to Chemical Warfare Defense", of the Marine Corps Institute textbook "Chemical Warfare Defense", MCI 57.6c, published around 1980. This is page 2, the second half of "Historical Examples of the use of Toxic Chemical Agents" and "Classification of Chemical Agents".
Noteworthy is the frank admission about the "contrasting positions of preparedness" of Germany and the U.S. concerning the nerve gas Tabun in WWII.
