# #Mon Aug 09 11:57:49 CEST 2010 Text__jF2v4KOcEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_title=The Gas War Text__jF2v4KOcEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_text=In early 1915, the German military decide to test and deploy chlorine gas on the warfront. The first deployment on 22 April 1915 at Ypres in Flanders is supervised personally by Einstein\u2019s colleague and friend, the physical chemist Fritz Haber. Despite his pacifist convictions, Einstein never addresses Haber\u2019s role in the development of such weapons.