Chemical weapons are specialised weapons that deliver chemicals that inflict death or injury on humans through chemical actions. They are also called poor man’s bomb because they are relatively cheap and easy to produce. Example of chemical weapons are mustard gas, phosgene, chlorine and nerve agents sarin and VX.
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The horrors of chemical weapons during World War I prompted countries to sign the Geneva Protocol in 1925 to stop the use of “ asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices” and bacteriological method of warfare. The convention was
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