Adelman, Kenneth

Adelman, Kenneth, Chemical Weapons Restoring the Taboo , Orbis, Autumn 1986. 

Demarches, none the less, had their limitations. Former officials of the Reagan administration acknowledged that many of their demarches failed. In January 1990 Kenneth Adelman asserted that The Germans have been a big problem. I personally talked to them five or six years ago about exporting chemicals to the bad guys. They never really took it seriously The Schauble report confirmed that there had been a stream of representations to Bonn about the involvement of German companies in the... 

By the end of 1982 the steady accumulation of evidence, corroborated by some respected American and Canadian scientists, had converted many in the US Congress and media. It was the totality of the evidence which seemed so convincing, a theme underlined by US Ambassador Kenneth Adelman when he addressed the UN Assembly s Political and Security Committee on 8 December 1982. It might be easy , he declared, to discount individual bits of evidence. .. But when the body of evidence accumulates, as it has in Afghanistan and South-East Asia with the various components independently confirming chemical warfare, it is no longer possible to do so . ... 

Kenneth Adelman, Address to the Committee on Disarmament, 5 February 1987 US State Department Current Policy Document 916. For example. Air Chief Marshal Sir Patrick Hine, Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, speaking of the need to reach a verifiable global ban said, ... and I stress the need for it to be fully verifiable . [Emphasis added] The Impact of Arms Control on the Balance of Nuclear and Conventional Forces , RUSIJournal, December 1987, p. 11. 

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