Chemical weapon

Chemical weapon  (WMD,  poison)
Type	weapon
Subpage(s)	•Chemical weapon/British use in Iraq •Chemical weapon/Manufacturer

Chemical weapons are used in chemical warfare. Along with nuclear and biological weapons, they are considered Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Legal status

Under the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, there is a world-wide ban on the production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons and their precursors. Notwithstanding, large stockpiles continue to exist, usually justified as only a precaution against putative use by an aggressor.

Use in Prisons

Project Censored reported in 2017 that "in prisons and jails across the United States, far from any conventional battlefield or public scrutiny, tear gas and other chemical weapons are routinely used against people held captive in enclosed spaces, including solitary confinement."

 

Examples

Page name	Description
Agent Orange
Mustard gas	A first generation chemical weapon
Napalm	Chemical weapon that leaves horrendous skin burn damages
Nerve agent
Sarin
White phosphorous

 

A Chemical weapon victim on Wikispooks

Title	Description
Sergei Skripal	The Russian double agent at the heart of the Skripal affair. Possibly being held at an unknown location by UK authorities

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Vladimir Putin	“Western countries have been saying for centuries that they bring freedom and democracy to other nations. Nothing could be further from the truth. Instead of bringing democracy they suppressed and exploited, and instead of giving freedom they enslaved and oppressed. The unipolar world is inherently anti-democratic and unfree; it is false and hypocritical through and through. The United States is the only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons twice, destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. And they created a precedent. Recall that during WWII the United States and Britain reduced Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and many other German cities to rubble, without the least military necessity. It was done ostentatiously and, to repeat, without any military necessity. They had only one goal, as with the nuclear bombing of Japanese cities: to intimidate our country and the rest of the world. The United States left a deep scar in the memory of the people of Korea and Vietnam with their carpet bombings and use of napalm and chemical weapons. It actually continues to occupy Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and other countries, which they cynically refer to as equals and allies. Look now, what kind of alliance is that? The whole world knows that the top officials in these countries are being spied on and that their offices and homes are bugged. It is a disgrace, a disgrace for those who do this and for those who, like slaves, silently and meekly swallow this arrogant behaviour. They call the orders and threats they make to their vassals Euro-Atlantic solidarity, and the creation of biological weapons and the use of human test subjects, including in Ukraine, noble medical research. It is their destructive policies, wars and plunder that have unleashed today’s massive wave of migrants. Millions of people endure hardships and humiliation or die by the thousands trying to reach Europe.”	Vladimir Putin	2022

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Bioterror: Manufacturing Wars The American Way	foreword	1 April 2003	William H. Schaap Ellen Ray

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