About the book: 2019 / When the military chemical service was created in the Red Army in May 1918, it “inherited” stocks of cylinders with two poisonous gases - chlorine and phosgene. In 1921, the USSR began the process of creating a chemical weapons production industry, which during the Cold War alone produced more than 60 thousand tons of military poison, many types of which were significantly superior in their parameters to their American counterparts. For the first time, the history of the Soviet military-chemical complex will be told , most of whose secrets were never revealed by Western intelligence.