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Minority Report
Hitchens, Christopher | March 16, 1998 issue

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It was interesting to see Tom Clancy contributing a recent article to "The New York Times" about the false-alarm element in all the propaganda about chemical and biological weapons. It is true of course that nerve gases and toxins are unstable and hard to deploy, and can easily dissipate. It is also true that they are a menace to those who are vile enough to make use of them. Finally, it's true that, as with the possession of nuclear weapons, they make any of one's adversaries into a military superpower. Former U.S. President George Bush said almost correctly that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had used chemical weapons on his own people.

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CHEMICAL weapons; BIOLOGICAL weapons; NERVE gases; HUSSEIN, Saddam, 1937-2006; WEAPONS of mass destruction; UNITED States
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