chemical weapons

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• SOURCE: History.com
  5/17/2021
  

  How the Shocking Use of Gas in World War I Led Nations to Ban It

  "In 1925, the League of Nations adopted the Geneva Protocol, which prohibited the use of chemical and biological agents in war, but did not stop nations from continuing to develop and stockpile such weapons."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/26/2020
  

  The Long History of Chemical Weapons in Civilian Law Enforcement

  by Thomas Faith

  Chemical weapons developed for World War I found their way into civilian policing to repress labor movements despite the objections of military leaders like General John Pershing. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  4-11-17
  

  Hitler refused to use sarin during WWII. The mystery is why.

  Over the years, historians (armchair and scholarly) and psychologists have speculated that maybe Hitler didn’t use sarin because he was a victim of a mustard gas attack in 1918, during World War I, and knew the misery of such weapons.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  4-12-17
  

  Washington’s demonization of Foes jumps Shark with Sean Spicer on Hitler

  by Juan Cole

  But Spicer’s problem was not in misspeaking. He got himself into trouble because he just did what Washington does. He demonized the enemy du jour.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  4-11-17
  

  Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer: Even Hitler didn't use chemical weapons

  Later in the briefing, Spicer walked back his remarks when a reporter challenged him to explain, saying Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons “in the same way” as Assad.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7-9-14
  

  When chemical weapons killed 90,000

  World War I ushered in an era of chemical weapons use that lingers, lethally, into the present day.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  9-8-13
  

  Syria's history of chemical warfare is 1.7K years old

  Noxious gases were used during a siege of a Roman city in 256 AD.

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• Why Are Chemical Weapons So Bad?

  by Thomas I. Faith

  "War is abhorrent to the individual, yet he accepts blowing men to pieces with high explosives ... however, to burn the skin of a man outrages all his civilized instincts."

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• The Case for Intervention in Syria

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  Chemical weapons must be off-limits in war.