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We now know that the Cabinet discussed the wide-scale deployment of chemical warfare in the event of German landings on the South-East coast in 1940. It would have been a last-ditch attempt to repel the invasion, and I suspect not even used initially, likely only if it seemed that the Wehrmacht were going to break out of their beachheads.
However, if chemical weapons like mustard gas and perhaps even more potent chemicals had been deployed, I'm trying to research what effect this might have had on the soil, wildlife and other elements of the British countryside. We know what that stuff does to humans, but what might it have done to the country itself? Assuming wide deployment, and a successful repelling of the Germans, would we be looking at soil damage, perhaps long-term or even permanently? And I'm assuming it would get into the food chain as well.
However, if chemical weapons like mustard gas and perhaps even more potent chemicals had been deployed, I'm trying to research what effect this might have had on the soil, wildlife and other elements of the British countryside. We know what that stuff does to humans, but what might it have done to the country itself? Assuming wide deployment, and a successful repelling of the Germans, would we be looking at soil damage, perhaps long-term or even permanently? And I'm assuming it would get into the food chain as well.