Article: Medical expert reports use of chemical weapons in Iran-Iraq war.

Article: Chemical Weapons' Convention Deadline Of 2012 For ...
M2 Presswire;  October 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... October 2007-United Nations: Chemical Weapons' Convention Deadline Of 2012 For Destruction Of Remaining Chemical Weapons Stockpiles 'Enormous Challenge ... outside Treaty Could Develop; Chemical Weapons, Weaken Determination to Eliminate ...

Article: The Chemical Weapons Convention at a glance
Arms Control Today;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is a multilateral treaty that bans chemical weapons and requires their destruction within a ... than any prior international agreement on chemical weapons. (The 1925 Geneva Protocol, for instance ...

Article: Iraq's Chemical Weapons Legacy: What Others Might ...
The Middle East Journal;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Iraq's experience with chemical weapons provides ample lessons for ... likely to learn from Saddam that chemical weapons are useful for waging war against ... are likely to conclude that chemical weapons are not a "poor man's nuclear ...

Article: Ratifying chemical weapons treaty hurts United ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  April 11, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... vote on ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), a treaty ... production and stockpiling of chemical weapons by the countries that ratify ... humane as ``banning'' chemical weapons may sound, the Senate should ...

Article: Chemical weapons.(War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare ...
Issues in Science and Technology;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... fully expected to find stockpiles of chemical weapons when it invaded Iraq (it did not ... Soviet Union were building up their chemical weapons stocks, and their use was considered ... the 1980s, Saddam Hussein unleashed chemical weapons in the Iran-Iraq War, as well as ...

Article: A chemical weapons atlas.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;  September 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Few states admit that they possess chemical weapons. In recent years, only the United ... which has started to destroy its chemical weapons, has a stockpile of about 30,000 ... India recently admitted to having chemical weapons, but only for "defensive" purposes ...

Article: The Chemical Weapons Taboo.
American Political Science Review;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... both of them frozen in death by chemical weapons. Other images of warfare lurk there ... acceptance over time. The abhorrence of chemical weapons, however, has endured. Many authors ... that the human reaction to the use of chemical weapons is universal, perhaps genetic, certainly ...