The Importance Of Chemical Warfare

What is chemical warfare and why should we care about it? Chemical warfare is the use of toxins as a devastating weapon. So devastating that it falls under the WMD’s or weapon(s) of mass destruction. Although chemical weapons aren 't as prolific as during the WW1, they still pose a real threat. The most recent case and point is in Syria when they used chemical weapons on their own civilians after they were told by the OPCW to destroy them (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34212324). But there are organizations made to stop the threat of chemical weapons such as the OPCW or the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (https://www.opcw.org/). We need to stop the threat of chemical weapons. They are too easily obtained, produced and used. Also if you don 't have the proper protection against it, which most people don 't, then you have a real chance of dying
Firstly based off opcw.org they are still trying to get a foothold on the war they waged on chemical weapons. Until wasn’t until recently that they got the Syrian government to destroy their cache of chemical weapons (https://www.opcw.org/news/article/destruction-of-syrian-chemical-weapons-completed/). They just got them to destroy their chemical weapons after several years so it’s a real possibility that other countries have chemical …show more content…
If they don’t die right away it’s almost inevitable that they will later on since there are many health side effects after being exposed to chemical weapons. Lastly informaction.org details the effects of chemical weapons on the environment. Agent Orange which is an aggressive herbicide was used in large scale in Vietnam and destroyed over 15% of their vegetation (http://www.informaction.org/index.php?menu=menua.txt&main=weapons_effects.txt&s=Weapons). Not to mention the health problems caused to the people and wildlife that inhabit that