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Chemical Weapons: The United Nations Team of Experts in the Iran-Iraq War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

U. Imobersteg
U. Imobersteg*
Affiliation:
Swiss Army Toxicology Section, Consultant to the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
*
Herzognacker 53 E, 3654 Gunten, BE, Switzerland.
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Abstract

This report from a member of the United Nations (UN) team of experts describes the investigations of the use of chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq War. The UN-sponsored team of experts discovered evidence that clearly showed the use of three chemical weapon substances during that conflict—Yperite (Mustard Gas), Tabun (nerve gas), and Phosgene (respiratory irritant). The effects of these chemical agents and some means of treatment for victims are described.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 1991 , pp. 41 - 42
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1991

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Footnotes

Presented at the Round Table on the Implications of Chemical/Biological Weapons on Man, Society, and the Environment, organized jointly by the Medical Society of the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine, The Round Table presentation took place at WHO, Geneva, Switzerland on 24 March 1990.