This century opened with the horror of chemical warfare in the trenches of World War I.
The termination of chemical warfare-related activities is likely to be as difficult to verify as their conduct.
The trial is underway of a white doctor who headed the apartheid regime's chemical warfare research programme.
This is clear from the history of the oft- violated 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibiting initiation of chemical warfare.
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Mr. LARIJANI: We clearly have announced that in our defense doctrine there is no place for chemical warfare or nuclear weapons.
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He served during the Reagan Administration as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense responsible for the chemical warfare arms control negotiations.
If you seek to protect your belongings without resorting to chemical warfare, there are plenty of other places to spend your money.
The men had volunteered for experiments at the government's chemical warfare research base at Porton Down in Wiltshire in 1953 and 1954.
In 1925, following the horrific experience of chemical warfare in World War I, an international convention banning the first use of chemical weapons was signed.
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Interspersed among the many reports and interviews about the threat of Iraqi chemical warfare have been occasional stories concerning the bitter debates this danger has inspired in Israel.
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In 1925, following the horrific experience of chemical warfare in World War I, an international convention was signed which attempts to do nothing more than bar the first-use of chemical weapons.
That venerable treaty banned the initiation of chemical warfare.
They would collect environmental samples such as soil, rubble or vegetation that may have been in contact with the chemical warfare agent and may still contain characteristic degradation products or even traces of it.
In late 1988, relations between the United States and Germany were seriously strained when a long-running, secret conflict over U.S. allegations tying a German company, Imhausen, to the then-nearly complete Libyan chemical warfare plant at Rabta broke into public view.
Instead, the Senate should recognize that, if we want to promote a new global norm against chemical warfare, it would be no less effective but far more responsible, safer, and certainly cheaper to do so via hortatory United Nations Security Council resolutions rather than by means of fatally flawed arms control agreements.
Though Israel so far has not done so, it must insist that if it is to give up the defensive asset of the Golan Heights, there must be not only a demilitarized zone on the Golan, but also a reduction of Syria's armed forces and missiles, and a dismantling of its arsenal of chemical warfare.
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More recently, at the Americans' request, the Czechs have been quick to beef up a 250-strong chemical-warfare unit in Kuwait.
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NATO's arsenal towards the inter-related issues of terrorism, chemical and biological warfare, and missile proliferation.
He appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission last July to testify about his alleged role as architect of the apartheid government's covert chemical-and biological-warfare programme.
The mandate of UNSCOM-the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq-was to see to the dismantling of Iraq's offensive-warfare programs: chemical and biological weapons, nuclear weapons, and longrange missiles.
It does not and cannot ban all chemical agents that can be used for warfare.
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