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    Wilfred Owen’s encapsulates the authentic experiences of the soldiers from war which creates a strong sense of relation between the poems and the responder. The composer expresses their suffering through contradictory interpretations of war’s brutality and the futile sacrifice of youthful soldiers. In the poems ‘Anthem For A Doomed Youth’ and ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ the theme of the brutal reality of the deaths in war, brings the word of Owen’s poems to flesh for the reader. This evokes an emotional

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    INTRODUCTION The following research paper has been compiled to provide an insight into Chemical Weapons (CW). It deals with the description and the usage of various chemical reagents used by various countries and their negative effects. The following also shows the policies of countries towards chemical weapons, their stockpiles and their lethality and disposal. The following report also shows the history of chemical warfare, their demilitarisation, proliferation and the various councils set up to reduce

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    Chemical weapons are highly volatile form of killing human beings that has been used by the Syrian government. Many are asking the US government to intervene and stop them from using this outrageous form of destruction. Recently the Syrian government used chemical weapons against its civilian population to try and combat rebels fighting against the Assad regime (Chemical weapons). Chemical weapons are weapons of mass destruction that are considered a crime against humanity and war crimes as the use

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    Syria- Obama & the Chemical Weapons Conflict As of recent, there is an ongoing debate over the response of the Obama administration related to the events occurring in Syria and the potential violation by the Syrian government of customary international law and relevant treaties and conventions in the use of chemical weapons against its own people. The conflict itself has history which is required to be thoroughly examined before conclusions can be placed and actions are to be carried out. The

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    Libyan Chemical Weapons Proliferation Introduction A legacy of aggression exists between the United States and Libya which pervades every facet of U.S. foreign policy, particularly in the non-proliferation arena. The absolute distrust of Revolutionary Leader Colonel Mu'ammar Abu Minyar al-Qadhafi and his government expressed by U.S. officials has prompted the United States to play the role of policing non-proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, the so-called weapons of mass

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    the international treaties and conventions, such as the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention, and the Convention on weapons biological and Toxin. Also stresses the importance of establishing national control lists; Saudi Arabia provided a list of treaties and agreements signed by Saudi Arabia, which shows the commitment of Saudi Arabia agreements referred to in referred to in the matrix such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Convention for the Suppression of Acts of

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    On April 22, in the Second Battle of Ypres, in World War 1 (WWI), the first chemical weapon was used. After over 101 years of this dilemma, the world has yet to find a solution for the pressing issue of chemical weapons as a threat to international security. Chemical weapons are highly toxic and are made to expose radiation and consequently kill living organisms. There are many types of these deadly gases, hence many different effects on people. These include brain damage, skin rashes/damage, and

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    concoction weapons is currently implemented and maintained by an association called the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons or the OPCW. This association is in charge of decimating 93% of the world's concoction weapons and ensuring every office that held or made compound weapons has been repurposed as indicated by the official site "Of 76,732 metric huge amounts of Chemical operator that has been pronounced, 93% has been annihilated starting at 2017" Toxic Chemicals which are controlled

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    year ,the syrian government was forced to join the international chemical weapons convention , after the united state announced that it would seek military strikes for using chemical weapons on the syrian people . In the agreement between the united states and russia, the syrian government would surrender all its chemical weapons to international inspectors .Since the Agreement Syria has compiled and forty-one percent of their weapons have been destroyed (LEDERER ) .This paper examines whether the

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    World War I: A Total War

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    defined as, “A war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded.” From this definition two important characteristics of total war can be seen. First, a total war will be fought without restrictions on the weapons used. This utilization of weapons will ignore previous laws and agreements concerning the use of weapons. Second, a total war will ignore the

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