1. Chemical Weapons and the Gulf War: The Dog That Did Not Bark.
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Cigar, Norman
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CHEMICAL weapons , *THREATS , *PERSIAN Gulf War, 1991 , *DECISION making , *WAR - Abstract
Despite a realistic threat that Iraq would use chemical weapons (CW) during the Gulf War, it did not do so. Fear of retaliation was probably a key factor, bus battlefield conditions-including the rapid tempo of operations, the destruction of Iraq's delivery systems, and the weather-also may have played a significant pan in Baghdad's decision-making. There is greater impetus for controls on CWs now. However, Third world states may conclude that it was assumed retaliation that prevented Iraq's CW use, thus validating the wed to field their own CW as a deterrent.
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- 1992
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