Global Security Newswire

The Hungarian Defense Ministry has acknowledged possessing chemical weapons during the Cold War-era, the Hungarian newspaper Nepszabadsag reported last week (see GSN, July 23).

In addition to possessing chemical weapons, the Hungarian military also conducted exercises involving small amounts of agent in the 1960s and the 1970s, the newspaper reported. Since 1990, Hungary has worked to reduce its chemical weapons stockpiles to a small amount of mustard gas, nerve agent and lewisite for use in testing protective equipment, Nepszabadsag reported (Zoltan Haszon, Nepszabadsag/BBC Worldwide Monitoring, Sept. 28).