Abstract
The non-use of chemical weapons in the Second World War did not lead to their abandonment. Since 1945 there have been numerous allegations that chemical and biological weapons have been used. Many of these have not been substantiated. They have, however, demonstrated the propaganda value of alleging the use by opponents of chemical weapons.1 This chapter considers some of the more serious allegations made since the Second World War. More recent claims of Soviet non-compliance with the Geneva Protocol and the Biological Weapons Convention are considered in chapter 5.
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Peter Dunn, ‘The Chemical War: Iran Revisited — 1986’ in NBC Defense and Technology International, Vol. 1, June 1986, No. 3, pp. 32–9.
John Graham, ‘The Iran-Iraq war Eight Years On’, NATO’s Sixteen Nations, November 1987, p. 16.
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Adams, V. (1989). ‘A Green Country … Knocked Silly by Guns’. In: Chemical Warfare, Chemical Disarmament. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08903-1_4
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