Papers of M H F Wilkins: papers relating chiefly to the use of chemical weapons in Iraq

Correspondence, conference papers, notes, press releases and background information relating chiefly to the use of chemical weapons in Iraq, including: publicity leaflets, programme and participant list for a Chemical Weapons Convention conference, Sep 1988; draft letter from Wilkins to the Ambassador of Iraq, Nov 1988, requesting permission to formally present a letter from the Second International Scientists’ Congress; letter from Mohamed Al Mashat, Iraqi Ambassador, Dec 1988, denying reports of the use of poison gas by Iraq against its Kurdish population; copy typescript texts by Al Mashat, ‘The cause of peace impaired by Israeli interests: Iraq rebuts hostile campaign’, and ‘Poison gas: how falsehood thrives’, 1988; bulletin of The Council for Arms Control, Aug 1988; Faraday Discussion Paper No 12, ‘Verifying a ban on chemical-warfare weapons’, by Julian Perry Robinson (Council for Arms Control, 1988); briefing notes, ‘Medical effects of chemical warfare agents’, produced by the Working Party on Chemical and Biological Warfare, 1991.

1988-1991

1 file

Wilkins, Maurice; King's College London; The Independent; Embassy of the Republic of Iraq (London); Al Mashat, Monhamed; Working Party on Chemical and Biological Warfare

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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The original material is held at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.