Arab-Israeli Six-Day War

The 1967 Arab-Israeli Six-Day War has been described as the war that came very close to being the first major war where both combatants openly used nerve agents and chemical warfare. Fearing a pending attack from its Arab neighbours, on 5 June 1967 the Israelis launched... 

Much of what the U.S. Army learned from the Yemen Civil War was negative. Reports of possible chemical use in certain areas of the world, particularly those inaccessible to official and technical observers, were difficult to confirm or even to condemn without accurate and verifiable information. News reports alone proved informative but unreliable. Even samples from the alleged attacks apparently did not lead to further political or military action. Most importantly, with the world distracted by the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War and events in Vietnam, politics discouraged a universal condemna-... 

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