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INCREASED
CONCERNS
ABOUT
CHEMICAL
WEAPONS
THE GROWING SCOURGE THAT THREATENS OUR FUTURE
PART 1 OF 2
BY AL J. VENTER
This is the first of a two-part series that explains some of the history of the development and deployment of chemical
weapons, and it informs us about the status of current chemical warfare threats abroad and at home. The second part
will appear in the November issue of American Survival Guide Magazine.
t would be unwise to ignore the reality that chemical Many of the victims were flown to European hospitals
weapons might be used in some future conflict. for treatment, although it is curious that nobody
Post-war Egypt’s army dropped bombs filled with nerve protested at the time. More recently, residents of the
gasses on rebel fighters in the Yemen Republic in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo have been struck down
I 1960s. Thereafter, chemical agents were deployed on a by mysterious chemical gasses sprayed on residents by
massive scale by both sides in the seven-year Iran/Iraq conflict. Syrian air force helicopters.
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