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

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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.

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

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