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The world is now officially 'free' of chemical weapons (www.npr.org)

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[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

You don't even have to have nefarious intentions. Chlorine gas is a perfectly normal industrial chemical, but simply dropping a few tanks over a trench system turns it into a chemical weapon.