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Article: The Chemical Weapons Taboo.
- Article from:
- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
- Author:
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By Richard M. Price. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. 233p. $32.50.
Marie Isabelle Chevrier, Harvard University
I keep in my mind one picture of Saddam Hussein's gassing of his own Kurdish people - a mother curled around her child, both of them frozen in death by chemical weapons. Other images of warfare lurk there as well: victims of napalm, land mines, mortar shells, and nuclear weapons. Each weapon exacts its own horror. Yet, thus far, only chemical and biological weapons have sustained nearly universal condemnation for the past hundred years. Why these and not others? Many weapons, condemned when introduced into warfare, have gained ...