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The general public underestimates the hazard of chemical weapons, to a great extent, due to insufficient knowledge of the action of this means of mass destruction. According to the terms and conditions of the Chemical Weapons Convention, states possessing stockpiles of chemical weapons must have them destroyed early in the 21 century. According to the experts’ estimations, these stockpiles (in terms of the mass of chemical warfare agent) include more than 30,000 tonnes in the USA and 40,000 tonnes in Russia.
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Fokin, A.V., Babievsky, K.K. (1996). Chemical “Echo” of the Wars. In: Kaffka, A.V. (eds) Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons: Aspects, Problems and Solutions. NATO ASI Series, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8713-6_4
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