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1.Who gave blankets from a smallpox hospital to an indigenous population?
2. Hague Convention outlaws chemical weapons name a country that does not sign.
3. Kurdish rebels fight for independence. Who calls the Kurds "uncivilized tribes" and "strongly supports" the gassing of the Kurds? Name the country that did the gassing and the year.
4. Who does not sign the 1925 Geneva Protocol against gas and biological warfare?
5. An "justification" for the Gulf War was to keep Iraq from getting the Bomb. What country has ever actually used the bomb in warfare? Was it a civilian or military target? Name another country to have used nuclear weapons.
6. Who doctors conducted bio-warfare experiements on POWs in WWII?
7. What country puts the officers responsible on trial for war crimes?
8. Who denounces the above trials as propaganda?
9. Who shields officers in exchange for the experimental data?
10. Whose army in 1951 tests a race specific fungal weapon?
11. Whose 1956 Army manual explicitly states that biological warfare is not banned?
12. What 1959 body considers--and rejects-- a ban on first use of biological and chemical weapons?
13. What dangerous organization conducted a 1966 germ warfare experiment in a NYC subway?
14. U.N. votes to ban tear gas and herbicides in warfare in 1969. 3 votes against it. Name 1.
15. When was direct use of Agent Orange ended? What was the damage?
16. Whose bio-weapon kills 500,000 pigs in Cuba?
17. When does U.S. sign 1925 Geneva Protocol?
18. Iraq uses mustard and nerve gas to defend against Iranian "human wave" attacks in 1984. UN moves to condemn. Who opposes?
19. U.$. Senate has three tie votes to resume chemical weapons production. Who breaks the tie with a "yes" vote each time?
20. Whose police and prisons use a banned chemical agent daily?
21. Name a major University to do research on anthrax?
22. Which UN body condemned that University?
23. Who led protests at that University and stopped anthrax research?
24. Who used radioactive weapons in the Gulf War?
25. Who deployed tactical nuclear weapons in the Gulf War?
26. Who used banned napalm and fuel-air explosives in the Gulf War?
27. What document says that adopted treaties are the supreme law of the land, and that we must obey these higher laws in spite of "anything in the laws of any state to the contrary"?
28. Who wrote a law that says: "The President may deny a request to inspect any facility in the [country] in cases where the President determines that the inspection may pose a threat to national security interests." It further states that "any objection by the President to any individual serving as an inspector shall not be reviewable in any court."?
29. Who arrested an weapons inspection team that was using international law to inspect a military base for illegal weapons on March 1, 1998?
Answers:
[Spoilers ahead: Reading the answers now might teach you a lot, but make the presentation less fun.]
1 Lord Jeffrey Amherst
2 US
3 Winston Churchill, England, 1919
4 US
5 US civilian none
6 japan
7 ussr
8 us
9 us
10 us
11 us
12 us house of reps
13 us army
14 US
15 1971. Destroyed at least 6 percent of south Vietnamese croploand, enough to feed 600,000 a year.
16 CIA
17 1974
18 us
19 george bush
20 us
21 umass
22 none
23 rsu
24 us
25 us
26 us
27 Article VI, Paragraph 2, U.S. Constitution
28 The Senate Foreign Relations Committee
29 The Tucson City, Arizona, Police at the Davis Monthan Air Force Base. They were looking for depleted uranium weapons.
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