Biological and Chemical Weapons
Biological and Chemical Weapons | The Biological and Chemical Weapons in Iraq’s Arsenal
Franklin Foer is a staff writer for U.S. News & World Report. Previously he was on the staff of Slate, a Microsoft Network online news magazine.
Summary: Iraq’s biological and chemical weapons arsenal was in its infancy during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s. Between the conclusion of that war in 1988 and the beginning of the Persian Gulf War in 1991, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein committed more resources to increasing the nation’s stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons. In the aftermath of the Gulf War, a defeated Iraq was ordered to...
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- Biological Weapons Are a Serious Threat
- Is the Fear of Biological Terrorism Justified?
- Terrorists Would Be Unlikely to Use Biological or Chemical Weapons
- Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical Terrorism Warrant Government Funding
- The Media Direct U.S. Policy Regarding Biological and Chemical Weapons
- An Attempt to Destroy Chemical Weapons Goes Awry
- Decreasing U.S. Intervention Overseas Will Reduce the Threat of Terrorist Attacks
- The Migration of Russian Biological Weapons Experts Is a Serious Threat
- A Nuclear Arsenal Is Needed to Counter a Biological Weapons Threat
- The Chemical Weapons Convention Is Unenforceable
- Local Governments’ Responses to Biological and Chemical Terrorism
- Unearthing the Truth
- Iraq Still Possesses a Biological and Chemical Arsenal
- The Biological and Chemical Weapons in Iraq’s Arsenal
- The U.S. Supplied Iraq with Biological and Chemical Weapons’ Materials
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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