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By the time World War II broke out the USA had 135,000 tonnes, and the UK had 35,000 tonnes of different types of chemical weapons (CW). The Allies developed detailed strategic plans for the use of massive amounts of chemical weapons against Germany. During the World War, Wehrmacht kept in good fighting order its chemical forces — military units able to use many different CW. In 1937 the General Staff of German Land Forces determined a strategy for the mass use of chemical weapons: “We must not make the mistakes of the First World War once again by using the new CW in small, uncoordinated amounts. These CW ought to be used with lighting speed, unexpectedly, precisely and at the wide front” [1].
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Surikov, B.T. (1996). How to Save the Baltics from Ecological Disaster. In: Kaffka, A.V. (eds) Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons: Aspects, Problems and Solutions. NATO ASI Series, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8713-6_8
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