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cord-005227-74ycwmyg	Richardson, Jacques G.	The bane of “inhumane” weapons and overkill: An overview of increasingly lethal arms and the inadequacy of regulatory controls	2004		.txt	text/plain	12240	548	53	How did the scientifically based Haber's constant-the product of the concentration of a substance as parts per million in a fixed volume multiplied by time in minutesbecome, during the First World War, the measure of effectiveness of chemical agents as weapons? When the United Nations' Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) was forced by that country's leader to abandon in December 1998 its monitoring of what Iraq might be developing as weapons of mass destruction, the international inspection group determined that Iraq had progressed in terms of developing • biological weapons: culturing enough anthrax bacteria to produce 26,000 liters of infectious agent to be held in reserve, • chemical arms including a supply of 550 artillery shells filled with mustard gas, together with at least one and a half tonnes of the nerve reagent VX, and • what may be a long-term missile project, spread among twelve different national facilities.	./cache/cord-005227-74ycwmyg.txt	./txt/cord-005227-74ycwmyg.txt