The Man Who Invented Chemical Weapons

One hundred years ago, Fritz Haber invented the first chemical weapon and convinced the German army to use it. His wife Clara, also a chemist, fiercely opposed her husband’s project. When she couldn’t stop it, she committed suicide. Judith Claire Mitchell tells the story in her tragic and yet funny novel “A Reunion of Ghosts.”

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