Chemical warfare
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Chemical warfare (CW) involves using the toxic properties of chemical substances as weapons to kill, injure, or incapacitate an enemy.
This type of warfare is distinct from the use of conventional weapons or nuclear weapons because the destructive effects of chemical weapons are not primarily due to their explosive force.
Chemical weapons are classified as weapons of mass destruction by the United Nations, and their production and stockpiling was outlawed by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993. The offensive use of living organisms or their toxic products is not considered chemical warfare but biological warfare.
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See also
- 1990 Chemical Weapons Accord
- Ali Hassan al-Majid
- Area denial weapon
- Biological warfare
- Chemical Weapons Convention
- Chemical weapon designation
- Chemical weapons and the United Kingdom
- Exotic pollution
- Lethal Unitary Chemical Agents and Munitions
- List of chemical warfare agents
- List of highly toxic gases
- Operation Red Hat
- Ronald Maddison
- Psychochemical weapon
- Saint Julien Memorial
- Sardasht (A town attacked with chemical weapons during the Iran–Iraq War.)
- Stink bomb
- United States Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense
- Weapon of mass destruction
- Zyklon B
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