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NEWS ABOUT: chemical warfare

chemical warfare stories: 5 news summaries

Iraqi War Zone Sees
Big Spike in Birth Defects

Fallujah reports unusually high rate of abnormalities

Nov 14, 09 1:24 PM CST
(Newser) - Doctors in Fallujah are seeing an alarming rise in the number of birth defects and early life cancers. They have no definitive evidence, but suspicion has naturally fallen on toxic materials left behind after years of modern warfare, reports the Guardian . The rate of birth defects—including multiple tumors, nervous... More »

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Iraq • warfare • Fallujah • chemical warfare • Iraq war • birth defect

(AP) - The US can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013, reports a bipartisan commission in a study being briefed tomorrow to Vice President-elect Joe Biden. It suggests the Obama administration bolster efforts to counter and prepare for germ warfare by terrorists. "Our margin... More »

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chemical warfare • WMD • biological warfare • bioterrorism

Court Scraps Agent Orange Suit

Judge says chemical was used as a defoliant, not a weapon

Feb 22, 08 3:17 PM CST
(Newser) - Vietnamese plaintiffs who say Agent Orange caused them serious health problems ran into a judicial dead end today. A federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of a civil lawsuit over use of the defoliant in the Vietnam War. The suit claimed that Dow Chemical and other companies violated a ban... More »

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cancer • Vietnam War • chemical warfare • civil lawsuits • Dow Industrial • Agent Orange • dioxin • war reparations

'Gay Bomb,' Sword Eating Win Ig-Nobels

Making enemies 'sexually irresistible to each other' lights anti-Nobels' fuse  

Oct 5, 07 6:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US military does some pretty cutting-edge research, but a hypothetical bomb that would make enemy troops make love to each other instead of war on the US? The proposal—along with detailed research on the effects of sword-swallowing, extracting vanilla from cowpies, and curing hamster jetlag with Viagra—yesterday... More »

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homosexuality • chemical weapons • chemical warfare • Nobel Peace Prize • Ig Nobel Prizes

Nerve Gas Found at UN Building

Building evacuated after vials of dangerous chemical turn up in office

Aug 30, 07 12:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Weapons inspectors cleaning out an office in a United Nations building near its Manhattan headquarters found six to eight vials of a nerve gas believed to have been recovered from Iraq in 1996, the AP reports. A UN spokeswoman said there was no immediate danger from the substance, identified as... More »

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Iraq • United Nations • chemical weapons • chemical • nerve gas • phosgene • chemical warfare

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