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15.1.1925 - Death rays?

B/W: Speculative piece on poison gas and death rays wiping out US cities: early graphic attempt to show skyscrapers collapsing

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9.8.1990 - Chemical warfare background piece

B/W: World War 1 mustard gas attack; 1925 Geneva Convention document; defoliation during Vietnam war

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Iran/Iraq war gas shell case (1987); chemical missiles exploding during mock Russian battle (1988); tank being decontaminated

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2.6.1998 - Porton Down

Soldiers donning gas masks and NBC suits and on patrol at Porton Down

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24.9.1990 - Gulf crisis

British anti-chemical medical facilities: military ambulance; training exercise to treat wounded in anti-chemical field hospital comprising linked tents

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30.12.1990 - Troop training

British troops training for chemical attack: soldiers putting on NBC suits

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8.1.1989 - Rabta chemical plant

Journalists en-route and visiting Rabta chemical plant in Libya; the Libyans say the plant produces pharmaceuticals

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11.10.1991 - Iraq chemical plant

Chemical weapons factory in Metthana, Iraq visited by UN inspectors; safety precautions; destroyed mustard gas bombs and supergun

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25.9.2001 - Bio-terrorism

Warnings about possibility of bio-terrorist attacks: Anthrax in petri dish; laboratory worker in Texas; computer simulation of anthrax attack; anthrax release capsule; anthrax injections received; gas masks put on by soldiers; interview Theresa Koehler (Microbiologist); STILLS of smallpox victims; smallpox lab work; interview Dr. DuPont (Consultant to US Government); laboratory technicians at work

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5.11.1992 - Iraqi poisons plant

UN poison gas experts arrive to commission plant to destroy chemical weapons in Iraq: Ghazi Faisal (Head of team) interview; Ron Manley (Chairman of UN chemical destruction advisory panel) interview; UN vehicles at incineration plant; nerve gas containers; warheads for Scud missiles checked; nerve gas shells put in pit and exploded

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16.8.1970 - Posion gas dilemna

B/W: Nerve gas train in USA; crates loaded onto ship for dumping; shells removed by men in protective suits after their discovery in Austria; aftermath of alleged chemical attack in Yemen

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25.3.1965 - Porton Down

B/W: Exterior Porton Down research centre; gas masks; soldier puts on mask; soldier on test bike in protective gear; laboratory workers

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19.7.1943 - Smoke bombs

B/W: Flame thrower; mortar; phosphorus bomb explosion

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1.2.1983 - New evidence to support claim of chemical warfare in Kampuchea

KPNLF forces on patrol and skirmish; Soc Sann village casualties, including baby, with sores

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9.8.1990 - Iraq/Kuwait crisis

Dead people after Iraqi chemical attack on Kurdish town of Halabja (22.3.88); GRAPHIC on Iraqi chemical weapons; Tom King (Defence Secretary) interview; soldier in special NBC suit injecting himself; tank being decontaminated; soldiers putting on NBC suits; Reporter to camera in NBC suit - "insufferably hot"; Brigadier John Hemsley (Chemical weapons expert) interview; army training exercise

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23.8.1990 - Saudi training

US Marines training for chemical warfare; soldiers in protective suits; one taking drink through mask; Marines wilting inside their suits

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23.3.1995 - Japan factory

Chemical factory found at Buddhist Sect complex: warehouses in Kamikuishiki; vats and other equipment inside; drums of chemicals; poster of cult leader Shoko Asahara; Kyle Olson (Institute of Chemical and Biological Arms Control) interview

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23.8.1998 - Sudan factory bombed

Officials visit Shifa Pharmaceuticals factory which wwas destroyed in US military strike, a response to Kenya and Tanzania Embassy bombs: Sudan claim the factory was not involved in the manufacture of chemical weapons: Khartoum street scenes; destroyed factory; Abdel-Aziz Shenou )Aide to Parliament speaker) interview; UN resident co-ordinator Phillippe Borel touring factory and interview; shrapnel; hospital and injured; doctor interview

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5.10.2001 - Antidote work

Bio-tech firms working on antidotes to counter possible attack from biological weapons: laboratory workers at Elusys; Linda Nardone-Vice (Company President) interview; antidote fighting virus image on computer; Leslie Casey (Director Of Laboratory Operations) interview; New Yorkers vox pops on awareness of biological warfare; more labortary work

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22.3.1988 - Halbja massacre

Halabja Massacre: air views Iraq village; dead bodies in street killed by chemical attack (allegedly by Iraq), including father and child; school used as hospital; survivors treated; Iraqi POWs

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4.10.1987 - Russian chemical bombs

Russians display their full arsenal of chemical weapons, which they say they now wish to destroy; mobile destruction units; observers in gas masks while bombs disabled

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9.7.1986 - Gruinard Island

Gruinard Island in North West Scotland which has been forbidden territory since World War 2 Anthrax test: men in protective suits on island making tests to find Anthrax spores; decontaminant sprayed

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16.11.1997 - Israeli gas masks

Gas mask distribution centre in Jerusalem: people buying them; interview customer on picking up gas mask - 'we have no choice'

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1.3.1967 - Vietnam defoliation

B/W: Defoliation in Vietnam: Captain John Beakley awarded purple heart; ceremony; pilots' briefing; crew to planes; spray tanks readied; Provider takes off; air to air shots; plane spraying jungle; Phantoms in flight; Provider lands; Phantom lands; pilots eating meal; air-to-air defoliation

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9.1.1985 - UK may resume chemical weapons manufacture

Lawrence McGinty livespot and GRAPHIC on Chemical Weapons Committee and stockpiles of weapons; exteriors and interiors Nancekuke factory in Cornwall, which made chemical weapons (shut down in 1977); GRAPHIC on weapon stockpiles; NATO troops during 'Lionheart' exercise in 1984, wearing protective clothing; Michael Heseltine (Defence Secretary) interview; Sir Geoffrey Howe (Foreign Secretary) interview on outlawing chemical weapons; Gen. Sir Anthony Farrart-Hockley (Retired Commander, Allied Forces Northern Europe) interview - pro chemical weapons

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15.5.1941 - America prepares

B/W: Posters wanting waste paper, rags etc; rag and paper collections; gas masks handed out at factory; workers putting on masks; at work with masks on; boat building; 'trackless tank'

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B/W: Colonel Frank Knox speech on likelihood of war

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12.12.1938 - Gas-proof pram

B/W: Gas-proof pram demonstrated with inventor Edward Mills

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28.10.1943 - Gas mask manufacture

B/W: Gas masks manufactured in USA

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5.5.1941 - "Have you got your gas mask?" information film

B/W: "Have You Got Your Gas Mask?" information film on always having your mask, having them tested, how to put them on, simulated gas attack

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12.4.1937 - Sydney Small Arms School drill

B/W: Sydney Small Arms School gas-mask drill (in real tear-gas) and grenade and mortar training

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1914-18 (Exact date unknown)

B/W: Demonstration of gas masks: gas pump pulled; gas mask teaching session; components of gas masks; gas masks put on; air tanks put on back

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3.4.1941 - Factory demonstrates air raid readiness for King Haaken of Norway

B/W: King Haaken of Norway took round ARP arrangements at factory; girls in asbestos clothing ready to fight fires; gas drill started with gas pellets; people working in gas masks; Herbert Morrison speaking on need to carry gas masks; people carrying gas masks and putting them and working in them

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