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Article: Gas Weapons Ban Backed By Pentagon; Skeptical Senators Voice Reservations
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- The Washington Post
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- August 12, 1994
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The nation's top military officer sought to reassure skeptical
senators yesterday that destroying the U.S. chemical arsenal will
not leave the military vulnerable to chemical weapons strikes from
Iraq, North Korea and other rogue states.
Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
told the Senate Armed Services Committee U.S. conventional forces
are so overwhelming that even nations that keep chemical weapons
would be unlikely to use them in a war for fear of American
retaliation. He urged lawmakers to ratify the Chemical Weapons
Convention, which would require the United States and other
signatories to abolish virtually all chemical weapons by 2004.
"The U.S. ...