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Atlantic, The, December, 2002
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Foreign Affairs Deployment in Forty-five Minutes When the UN weapons inspectors left Iraq, in 1998, they were unable to account for 300 tons of chemicals used exclusively in the production of the nerve agent VX (ten milligrams of which can cause death upon contact with the skin). Also missing was enough material to create 25,000 liters of anthrax spores.
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Tony Blair's recently issued "Iraq Dossier"—based on British intelligence assessments, and made public in order to bolster support for military action against Iraq—asserts that the weapons-production infrastructure remains intact. Iraq could deploy chemical and biological weapons within forty-five minutes of Saddam's (or, apparently, his son's) order to do so. While UNSCOM found a number of technical manuals (so called "cook books") for the production of chemical agents and critical precursors, Iraq's claim to have unilaterally destroyed the bulk of the documentation cannot be confirmed and is almost certainly untrue. Recent intelligence ...
