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Dusty Agents and the Iraqi Chemical Weapons Arsenal
Eric Croddy, Senior Research Associate
Chemical & Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program (CBWNP)
Center for Nonproliferation Studies
October 2002

Issue Introduction   Issue Brief   Relevant Resources

Relevant Resources

Websites

Iraq Watch

Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Iraq Special Collection.

Federation of American Scientists, Chemical Weapons.

WMD411, Iraq, Center for Nonproliferation Studies.

Articles and Reports

Javed Ali, “Chemical Weapons and the Iran-Iraq War,” The Nonproliferation Review 8, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Spring 2001.

Gert Herigel, “Chemical and Biological Weapons: Use in Warfare, Impact on Society and Environment,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Iraq: A New Approach, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, August 2002.

Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Net Assessment, International Institute for Strategic Studies, September 2002.

Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Assessment of the British Government, September 2002.

Theodore Karasik, “Toxic Warfare,” RAND, October 2002.

Frederick R. Sidell et al., eds., Textbook of Military Medicine, Part I: Warfare, Weaponry, and the Casualty: Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare (Washington, D.C.: Borden Institute, 1997).

Jonathan B. Tucker, Monitoring and Verification in a Noncooperative Environment: Lessons from the UN Experience in Iraq, The Nonproliferation Review, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Spring-Summer 1996.

Maria Wahlburg, et al., The Future of Chemical and Biological Disarmament in Iraq: From UNSCOM to UNMOVIC, Nonproliferation, Arms Control, Disarmament, 1999, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Official Documents and Reports

UNSCOM, Comprehensive Review, 1999.

U.S. General Accounting Office, “Combating Terrorism: Need for Comprehensive Threat and Risk Assessments of Chemical and Biological Attacks,” September 1999.

U.S. National Security Council, “Fact Sheet: Iraq’s Program of Weapons of Mass Destruction,” November 14, 1997.

Chronologies and Charts

Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program, Chronology of State Use and Biological and Chemical Weapons Control, updated October 2001.

Books and Print Material

Frederic Brown, Chemical Warfare: A Study in Restraints (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1968).

Gordon M. Burck and Charles C. Flowerree, International Handbook on Chemical Weapons Proliferation (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991).

Eric Croddy, with Clarisa Perez-Armendariz and John Hart, Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen (New York: Copernicus Books, 2001).

Jonathan B. Tucker, ed., Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000).

Jonathan B. Tucker, “From Arms Race to Abolition: The Evolving Norm Against Biological and Chemical Warfare,” in Drell, Sofaer, and Wilson, eds., The New Terror: Facing the Threat of Biological and Chemical Weapons (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1999).

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The Biological & Chemical Warfare Threat (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, 1999).

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