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Network camaras briefly aimed their lenses at the Iran-Iraq war last month when the U.S. charged that Iraq had used mustard gas against Iranian soldiers. Iran had sent 15 of its wounded to West European hospitals, hoping to prove an Iraql violation of the 1925 Geneva Convention banning mustard gas. Toxicologists in Belgium found strong evidence of a mustard gas attack, and the U.S. State Department joined other nations in condemning Iraq...
...actions arouse more spontaneous revulsion than the deliberate use of toxic substances and pathogens against other humans. The thousands of mustard gassed blind and lung burned soldiers returning from World War I (and those that did not return) sparked an immediate world outcry. The result was the 1925 Geneva Protocol outlawing both biological and chemical weapons. The United States did not sign, perhaps as a by-product of the same isolationism that prompted the Senate not to ratify' entry into the League of Nations, but all other major powers were signatories to the treaty World War II saw no large...
...rise. Use of the outlawed substances has recently been proven in more instances than at any time since WWI--"yellow rain" in Laos, Cambodia, and Afghanistan as a result of Soviet-backed or direct Soviet aggression, and by Iraq against Iran. Reports have ranged from "ordinary" use of mustard gas by Iraq to the widespread, unexplained presence of artificial disease-causing toxins in Southeast Asia...
...fact, Iraq had already introduced an even deadlier scare: the use of chemical warfare against Iran. Last month Washington publicly condemned the use of mustard gas by Iraq against Iranians. Last week U.S. officials said they have evidence that Iraq is using nerve gas on the battlefield. A West German firm, officials said, has supplied Iraq with laboratory equipment that can produce the nerve gas. The Administration embargoed five chemical compounds essential in producing the gas from being shipped to either Iraq or Iran, but officials concede that most of the compounds are available on the world market. A State...
...same time however, with reports filtering in that Iraq is using mustard gas in its battle with Iran, the world has not a moment to lose in redoubling its fight against chemical warfare, one of the most truly despicable forms of war there is. The most potent threat to this effort is complacency, an attitude that is heightened by current doubts and uncertainties about the government position...