Libya's Chemical Weapons Program

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  • In 1987, Libyan military forces dropped Iranian-supplied mustard gas bombs on Chadian troops from a transport plane.[1]

Notes:

  1. Joshua Sinai, "Libya's Pursuit of Weapons of Mass Destruction," The Nonproliferation Review, 4(Spring-Summer 1997), p. 92. "Chemical Weapons in the Middle East," Arms Control Today, 5/91, p. 26.
Prepared by Michael Barletta and Christina Ellington, November 1998
© Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies.


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