Countering the proliferation of chemical weapons. Research report

Technical Report · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:7127163

Eisenstein, M

For more than a decade, the U.S. government has been grappling with the question of chemical-weapon proliferation along with the associated problems of missile and nuclear-weapon proliferation. The Geneva Protocol of 1925 banned the first use but not the production, transfer, or storage of chemical weapons. The extensive chemical-warfare arsenal of the former Soviet Union was the primary chemical-weapon threat to the United States from the start of the Cold War in the early 1950s, and thus drove U.S. chemical-weapon policy. The United States finally ratified the Geneva Protocol in 1975. Iraq's use of chemical weapons in its war with Iran in the 1980s stimulated the United States to improve its export controls of chemicals used to make chemical weapons.

• Research Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica, CA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 7127163
• Report Number(s): AD-A-282532/1/XAB; CNN: MDA903-90-C-0004
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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