Archive Report
Archive Report
Current Interest in Gas-Germ Weapons
Risk in Spread of Silent and Secret Weapons
The weapons of chemical and biological warfare are being exposed to public view, a glimpse at a time. Some viewers, here and abroad, are deeply troubled by what they see. U.N. Secretary General U Thant told the General Assembly in July 1968 that such weapons pose a greater threat to world peace than nuclear arms “because they are easily accessible to poor nations as well as superpowers.” A multinational committee of experts established by the General Assembly last December, at the request of the Geneva Disarmament Conference, is scheduled to report to the Secretary General by July 1 on the global dangers of gas and germ warfare.
Perhaps anticipating the report, Britain's Lord Ritchie ...