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=== Chemical Weapons ===
Primitive chemical weapons have been used in Cryria since ancient times, however chemical warfare as a modern concept did not appear until the late 19th-century. The establishment of the Cryrian chemical warfare doctrine is largely accredited to General Elise Berggren who
As an officer in the Cryrian Army she developed a close working relationship with both King Albert and chemist turned industrialist Charles Sundtröm, who first introduced the chloralkali process to Cryrian in 1892. Berggren received support to establish a secretive unit to examine the potential uses of chemical warfare as a means of leveraging Cryrian industrial capabilities and countering its numerical disadvantages, particularly with regards towards maintaining control over an increasingly unsettled empire. This group formed the core of what later become designated as the Special Materials Division. Throughout the 1890s the Division conducted several tests with chlorine-filled shells. Berggren later pushed for combat deployments of the new weapons against restive regions in the mountains of Aikthudr'zhur, but was ultimately denied. Rumors later spread that Berggren had used live test subjects procured by the Tomorrow Ministry, though these remain unsubstantiated. Opposition among the General Staff nearly resulted in the loss of Berggren's position and the disbandment of the Special Materials Division in 1898, however, a successful personal appeal to Queen Katharine saved both and served to set a new attitude by the Ministry of Defense towards chemical warfare in the leadup to the Great War:{{quote|My detractors claim that my proposals are barbaric, as though it is not the finest advantages of Cryrian technology and ingenuity that we are now bringing to the field. Only through such sophisticated measures shall high civilization triumph over low savagery.}}The decade of the Great War spurred on the final development of the CDF's chemical warfare doctrines. Instead of being limited to a single specialized unit, chemical shells were now proliferated across the regular army. The inevitable development of countermeasures spurred on the push for more advanced and deadly substances which led away from comparatively simple dual-use chemicals such as chlorine. The Kingdom retained a sophisticated for several decades after the conclusion of the war. These were decommissioned in 1970 due to both the perceived military irrelevance of such weapons on modern battlefields and their irrelevance for the protection of modern Cryrian interests. At the time of decommissioning, the CDF disclosed a sizable stockpile consisting of blister agents such as mustard gas and nerve agents including sarin and VX.
Former chemical weapons production sites have also been shut down, save for a small number of facilities which produce limited quantities of restricted materials for research, pharmaceutical, and chemical weapons defense testing purposes. These government-run sites are still operated by the Special Materials Division. Among their uses are the production of nitrogen mustard, which has medical uses in extremely limited quantities that would be uneconomical for Cryrian private sector manufacturers.
Chemical substances designated as incendiaries, explosives, or defoliants remain in CDF service. Substances for riot control are also utilized in law enforcement contexts.
==Major Installations==
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