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🇺🇦 Could Chemical Warfare Occur?

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With Russia's invasion of Ukraine faltering, could the Kremlin consider escalating the conflict using chemical weapons? What would biological warfare look like? 

Dr Alastair Hay, a Professor of Environmental Toxicology at the University of Leeds, joins Arthur Snell to discuss the history of chemical weapons, and if we'll see them used in the Ukraine conflict.

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  • “Officially Russia should have no chemical weapons. But all the evidence points to them being responsible for the Salisbury poisonings.” 
  • “The novichok nerve agent used against the Skripals and Navalny is exceeding lethal in small quantities.” 
  • “Russia has stood back and supported Syria’s use of chemical weapons.” 
  • “The U.K. had stocks of chemical weapons, but these were destroyed in the 1950s and 60s.” 
  • “Chemical weapons cause nowhere near as many casualties as nuclear weapons, but they are indiscriminate.” 
  • “Troops have protective clothing, but civilians don’t, so the use of these weapons would be to terrorise the population.”


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