Word: protocols
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...certainly unfortunate that the U.S. finds itself making these hated devices in violation of both the Geneva Protocol and Biological Weapons Convention. But it is the only hope of deterring further chemical attacks by the Soviet Union. Chemical and biological weapons are qualitatively different from other types of weaponry. A sudden, widespread breakout of mysterious disease--experienced by 50,000 Locations in the period 1976-80 and thousands of Afghan tribesmen since 1980--would not prompt an immediate conventional or nuclear counterattack. Instead, delays would result from time consuming investigation doubt even sickness among the commanders. Faced with such scenarios...
...trickiest thing to coordinate will be changes in research protocol," said Hunt. He added that any change in protocol, or plan of research, would have to meet with the approval of Harvard's research committee and that this might lead to occasional difficulties...
...script" was under way with a vengeance. As always, all roads led through the press. A telling sign of quarantine was that at Versailles, photographs were banned at my meeting with Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki of Japan. Last-minute changes in seating and other curious breaches of protocol, engineered by Baker, Deaver and their apparat, baffled our European hosts, many of whom had not previously had the experience of a guest's, as it were, shuffling the place cards of other guests...
...announcement, the ACSR detailed protocol for speakers at the hearing, including the provisions that...