In the 1980s, Saddam pursued an extensive biological weapons program and a nuclear weapons program, though no nuclear bomb was built. After the Persian Gulf War, the United Nations located and destroyed large quantities of Iraqi chemical weapons and related equipment and materials throughout the early 1990s, ...
Aug 2, 1990 ... Dr. Jonathan B. Tucker directs the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project at the Center for. Nonproliferation .... Report: Iraq's Use of CW in Gulf War. 116. Chemical Weapons-Related Incidents Before, During, and After the Persian Gulf War. Date/. Time. Location. Description. Source.
Another disease has been used as an effective biological weapon in the New World: smallpox. ... BIOLOGICAL WARFARE IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES ..... The experience gained from observations during the first Persian Gulf War in the late 1980s supported the information on biological and chemical weapons ...
The conflict has been compared to World War I in terms of the tactics used, including large-scale trench warfare with barbed wire stretched across fortified defensive lines, manned machine gun posts, bayonet charges, Iranian human wave attacks, extensive use of chemical weapons by Iraq, and later deliberate attacks on ...
Sep 20, 1996 ... Something in the Air, special report on controversy over whether American troops were made sick from exposure to Iraqi chemical weapons during Persian Gulf war in 1991; scientists remain baffled by ailments suffered by gulf war veterans; some researchers suggest that troops may have been exposed to ...
Chemical weapons have been used "probably 20 times" since the Persian Gulf War.