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Libya's Chemical Weapons Program

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Stockpile Filled Munitions

  • In the 1970s, the United States said that Libya had obtained chemical weapon munitions from East Germany.[1]

Notes:

  1. D. Chaplin, "Libya Military Spearhead Against Sadat," Military Review, November 1979, pp. 267-326; cited in Edward M. Spiers, "Rabta: A Case Study in International Action," in Chemical and Biological Weapons: A Study of Proliferation, ( New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994), p. 65.

Prepared by Michael Barletta and Christina Ellington, November 1998
© Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies.


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