of 1925, the Iraqi Army initiated two failed (1970–1974, 1974–1978) and one successful (1978–1991) offensive chemical weapons (CW) programs. President Saddam...
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nuclear weapons program, though no nuclear bomb was built. After the Gulf War, the United Nations located and destroyed large quantities of Iraqi chemical weapons...
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The Iraqi chemical weapons program, which had been active since the 1970s, was aimed at regulated offensive use, as evidenced in the chemical attacks...
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extensive biological weapons (BW) program in Iraq in the early 1980s, despite having signed (but not ratified until 1991) the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)...
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Syria's chemical weapons program began in the 1970s with weapons and training from Egypt and the Soviet Union, with production of chemical weapons in Syria...
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The 1991 Iraqi uprisings were ethnic and religious uprisings against Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq that were led by Shia Arabs and Kurds. The uprisings...
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three types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear weapons, biological weapons, and chemical weapons. It is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized...
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The Rock (film) (category Films about chemical war and weapons)
of the Iraqi chemical weapons program. Britain's Secret Intelligence Service was led to believe Saddam Hussein was continuing to produce weapons of mass...
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The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), officially the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons...
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remaining stockpiles of chemical weapons. Iraq Japan Libya Russia Syria United States Albania, as a party of the Chemical Weapons Convention, declared a...
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and 4,000 Iraqi troops, the offensive failed due to the Iraqi use of chemical warfare.: 264 The Iraqis launched the deadliest chemical weapons attacks...
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devastating, use of chemical weapons. Some 100,000 Iranian troops were casualties of Iraqi chemical weapons during the Iran–Iraq War. Iraq used mustard gas...
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the Iraqis built the LUGM-145 naval moored contact mine. There was an Iraqi biological weapons program (not to be confused with Iraqi chemical weapons program)...
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was higher than that used by Iraq in the Iran–Iraq War, implying a purity higher than the Iraqi chemical weapons program's low purity of 45–60%. According...
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Halabja chemical attack Disabled Iranian veterans Iraqi chemical weapons program "Iran Profile - Chemical Chronology 1987". Nuclear Threat Initiative. October...
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Frans van Anraat (category Iraqi chemical weapons program)
and a businessman. He sold raw materials for the production of chemical weapons to Iraq during the reign of Saddam Hussein. In December 2005, a court in...
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new weapons of mass destruction? At the time, nuclear weapons had not been developed. Japan conducted research on biological weapons , and chemical weapons...
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Halabja massacre (redirect from Halabja chemical attack)
Helebce) took place in Iraqi Kurdistan on 16 March 1988, when thousands of Kurds were killed by a large-scale Iraqi chemical attack. A targeted attack...
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chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war Iraq and weapons of mass destruction Iraqi chemical weapons program All times given are given in local time unless...
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ceremony. Chemical bombing of Sardasht Halabja chemical attack Iran–Iraq War Iraq chemical attacks against Iran Iraqi chemical weapons program "Commemorate...
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Sarin (redirect from Sarin gas weapons)
widely considered a weapon of mass destruction. Production and stockpiling of sarin was outlawed as of April 1997 by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993...
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Hussein Kamel al-Majid (category Iraq and weapons of mass destruction)
defection: Iraq had operated a biological warfare program prior to the Gulf War, but had destroyed its entire stockpile of chemical and biological weapons and...
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It has been alleged that the British used chemical weapons in Mesopotamia in 1920, during the Iraqi revolt (Ath Thawra al Iraqiyya al Kubra), in the period...
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statements concerning Iraqi weapons programs and links to al-Qaeda have been discredited, though chemical weapons were found in Iraq during the occupation...
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Muthana State Establishment (category Iraqi chemical weapons program)
(its name changed later to Muthana State Establishment). This Iraqi chemical weapon program was assisted by a wide variety of companies and governments...
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weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and has signed treaties repudiating the possession of WMD including the Biological Weapons Convention, the Chemical...
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devastating, use of chemical weapons. Some 100,000 Iranian troops were casualties of Iraqi chemical weapons during the Iran–Iraq War. Iraq used mustard gas...
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(1-12-2003) Fresh information on the Iraqi chemical program; Iraqi money and German brains cooperated in building chemical weapons. Al Zaman, London. Federation...
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into weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons under the apartheid government. South Africa’s nuclear weapons doctrine...
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Gulf War syndrome (category Iraqi chemical weapons program)
sarin, which was released into the air by coalition bombing of Iraqi chemical weapons facilities. Significantly, the study found an increased incidence...
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