Soviet Union chemical warfare programme

The binary programme alone may not have significantly increased the scale of the chemical warfare threat as seen by the Soviet Union, but it may have been interpreted as signalling a heightened US interest in chemical warfare. Moreover, it did this at a time when the Russians were already concerned about the implications of new concepts being adopted by NATO. In practice, the Alliance appears to have been reluctant to consider even the most basic procedures relating to chemical release, but it is not difficult to see how the use of... 

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