Abstract
The risk of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) was seen as a threat to world stability throughout the Cold War. The emphasis was on nuclear weapons, which were regarded as the most powerful and dangerous threat. Biological weapons, which were not seen as significant before the dawn of bioengineering, began to generate major attention and concern only during the course of the 1980s. Chemical weapons were deemed inhuman and reprehensible, but here again, it took the 1990s and the large-scale use of these weapons by Iraq against Iran and Iraqi Kurds to alert the international community to their inherent dangers.
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Müller, H. (2006). Germany and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. In: Maull, H.W. (eds) Germany’s Uncertain Power. New Perspective in German Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230504189_4
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