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The Pentagon's 'Nonlethal' Gas
Mesler, Bill | February 17, 2003 issue

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The author argues that calmatives chemical weapons appears to violate to violate chemical weapons treaties. He notes that research on calmatives was discontinued for several years in the early 1990s because of fears that the weapons violated existing international law. In some way, the U.S. military's development of such weapon is part of a larger, disturbing expansion of the country's biological warfare capability.

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CHEMICAL weapons; MILITARY weapons; CHEMICAL warfare; TREATIES; INTERNATIONAL law; UNITED States
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