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    A History of Chemical Warfare

    Kim Coleman (2005)

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    Historical Precedents?

    War is defined as a state of hostility, conflict, antagonism or struggle between two opposing forces for a particular end. When chemical weapons are added to an existing arsenal, the nature of the conflict is ...

    Kim Coleman in A History of Chemical Warfare (2005)

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    The First World War

    The most persistent assumption underlying the decisions taken by the great powers in July and August 1914 was the illusion that the ensuing war would be short. The thinking behind this was relatively simple: m...

    Kim Coleman in A History of Chemical Warfare (2005)

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    The Second World War

    At the beginning of the Second World War, the experience of the First World War gave most of the combatants the expectation that chemical warfare would be used to an even greater extent, despite the Geneva Pro...

    Kim Coleman in A History of Chemical Warfare (2005)

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    The Middle East, Afghanistan, Bosnia and the Gulf

    While the United States was still involved in the Vietnam War, another war in the Middle East brought the subject of chemical warfare back to the forefront. From 1963 reports began to filter out of the use of ...

    Kim Coleman in A History of Chemical Warfare (2005)

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    Controlling Chemical Weapons

    The entry into force of the 1993 CWC on 29 April 1997 was unique in the history of arms control. This agreement both banned an entire class of weapons and simultaneously addressed chemical proliferation concer...

    Kim Coleman in A History of Chemical Warfare (2005)

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    The Inter-War Years, 1919–1939

    It was natural that the war should be followed by a wave of anti-war feeling. The war had done what the writing of the economists had failed to do: it had demonstrated that modern warfare brought loss on a col...

    Kim Coleman in A History of Chemical Warfare (2005)

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    The Soviet Threat, Korea and Vietnam, 1945–1975

    At the end of the Second World War, in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement which stated: ‘All arms, ammunition and implements of war shall be held at the disposal of the Allies or destroyed’, a large proport...

    Kim Coleman in A History of Chemical Warfare (2005)

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    Chemical Terrorism

    The possibility that terrorists would acquire or use chemical weapons was, of course, around long before a religious cult went on the rampage in Japan in the mid-1990s. This problem had been discussed for deca...

    Kim Coleman in A History of Chemical Warfare (2005)