Chemical Weapons Are Here to Stay. Got a Gas Mask?
“Yesterday morning, we awoke to pictures, to children foaming at the mouth, suffering convulsions, being carried in the arms of desperate parents.” Nikki Haley’s recent call for UN collective action against Syria’s use of chemical weapons echoes a century-old refrain dating back to the World War I battlefield of Ypres in April 1915. Across the world since that war, many have woken up in the morning to discover the tragic fate of friends and family, victims of the increasing use of chemical weapons in warfare.
Source URL (retrieved on May 15, 2017):
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/chemical-weapons-are-here-stay-got-gas-mask-20616
