Biological and Chemical Weapons
Biological and Chemical Weapons | The U.S. Supplied Iraq with Biological and Chemical Weapons’ Materials
William Blum has been a freelance journalist in the United States, Europe, and South America. He has written extensively on U.S. involvement in foreign affairs and is the author of Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.
Summary: The U.S. government’s disdainful reaction to Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs rings hollow. American corporations have been supplying Iraq with components to build chemical and biological weapons for decades. And when Iraq used such weapons against Iran during the 1980s, the U.S....
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Table of Contents
- 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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