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Lessons from Iraq on bioweapons

Nature volume 398, pages 187–188 (1999)Cite this article

There are strong political pressures to relax the scrutiny of suspected biological weapons activity in Iraq. But the experience of United Nations inspectors in the country points to significant dangers in such a policy.

The United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) was created by the Security Council in 1991 to ensure the destruction or inactivation of all items related to Iraq's biological, chemical and long-range missile weapons capabilities. It was envisaged that Iraq would provide within 15 days a full declaration of all its weapons of mass destruction. Verification of this declaration and disarmament would follow soon after.

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  2. the Institute for Tumorbiology-Cancer Research, University of Vienna, Austria. This article represents his personal viewpoint.,

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