This book traces through a 100+ year history of evolving chemical weapons technology‎,‎ public attitudes toward these weapons‎,‎ attempts to negotiate controls on them‎,‎ and important instances in which nations chose to use or forego the use of chemical weapons‎.‎ It then analyzes the potential deterrent role of chemical weapons for NATO‎,‎ and the political‎-military roles that chemical weapons might play in the third world‎.‎ It also profour major challenges arising from chemical and biological weapons‎.‎ The first is to continue modernizing the West‎'‎s chemical weapons despite the apparent reduction in the threat posed by the Soviet Union‎,‎ until a chemical arms control ban can be agreed and implemented‎.‎ The second challenge is how to cope with the possibility of far more destructive warfare between the rapidly growing number of third world friends and allies that have chemical weapons‎.‎ The third challenge is gaining global acceptance of a chemical weapons ban given the military and political benefits continuing adv‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎