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Current Protection Against CWAs

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Immediately after the first vast scale deployment of CWAs in battlefields, the development of protection medias for the soldiers, and predominantly gas mask, became an important research target.

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Giannakoudakis, D.A., Bandosz, T.J. (2018). Current Protection Against CWAs. In: Detoxification of Chemical Warfare Agents . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70760-0_4

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