Chemical weapons are weapons of mass destruction and mass annihilation.
They are fairly cheap, quite effective, and increasingly available. Even those incidents have often remained unconfirmed allegations. Never has the world witnessed the deployment of these weapons of mass destruction on such a large scale since 1925. Presently, with the precedent set by Iraq, the world faces the danger of even more appalling incidents of the use of chemical weapons. Not having fully come to grips with the idea of living under the constant threat of a nuclear holocaust, the specter of Halabja is breaking new ground in a dreadful prospectus for the people of the world.