Less well remembered is the fact that the USA has used chemical and biological weapons.
It frequently votes against United Nations resolutions that will monitor and curb such weapons. The USA often insists on countries having United Nations inspections for weapons programs while denying access for its own extensive chemical, nuclear and biological armoury. The USA will use the international legal system when it suits but ignore its judgements if they go against the USA. This behaviour is reported around the world leading to much anger and resentment at the USA. Little of this gets reported to the USA public however.
Some weapons regularly used by the USA are barely legal but of dubious morality (e.g. napalm, cluster bombs, depleted Uranium).
Much of the world feels like there is one law for the USA and its friends, another law for everyone else.
| Year | Country | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1946 | Japan | Obtained results of wartime biological experiments from Japan after promising immunity from prosecution. |
| 1950 | Bahamas | Spraying of toxic bacteria for testing. |
| 1951 | Marshall Islands | Testing of Hydrogen Bomb. |
| 1952 | Korea | Biological (plague, anthrax and encephalitis) and chemical (napalm) warfare. |
| 1953 | Canada | Chemical tests (zinc cadmium sulphide) in city. |
| 1954 | Marshall Islands | Testing of Hydrogen Bomb. |
| 1958 | Turkey Greece | Nuclear weapons installed in a country bordering the USSR. |
| 1962 | Vietnam | Use of Agent Orange, a defoliant which contains dioxin which is carcinogenic (cancer producing). |
| 1962 | Cuba | Use of chemical contaminants to sabotage the country's sugar and turkey exports. |
| 1965 | Vietnam | Use of agent orange (cancer producing defoliant) and flesh burning napalm. |
| 1968 | Vietnam | Use of flesh burning napalm. |
| 1968 | Marshall Islands | Human aftermath of nuclear testing. |
| 1969 | Korea | Agent Orange (carcinogenic defoliant) used extensively; Chemical training given to other countries. |
| 1970 | Vietnam | Agent Orange used extensively; CS Gas sprayed, killing thousands; cyanide, arsenic, napalm and naphthalene used. |
| 1970 | Laos | Sarin nerve gas used against villages - also affects USA soldiers. |
| 1971 | Cuba | Pigs infected with African Swine Fever. |
| 1975 | Vietnam | Human aftermath of Agent Orange used. |
| 1980 | Cuba | Attempt to infect Cuba with bacteria. |
| 1988 | Iraq | Export of biological and chemical agents to a regime that gasses civilians. |
| 1989 | Panama | Village sprayed with gas during invasion. |
| 1991 | Iraq | Deliberate bombing of nuclear facilities; use of weapons tipped with depleted Uranium, a hard but radioactive metal; civilians napalmed; use of sarin nerve gas. |
| 1994 | USA | USA soldiers exposed to nuclear, biological and chemical agents around the world. |
| 1996 | Cuba | Anti-crop insect sprayed over Cuba. |
| 1997 | USA | Refusal of USA to sign a treaty banning chemical weapons (signed by over 100 countries). |
| 1998 | South Africa | Encouragment of South Africa's apartheid regime to develop chemical and biological weapons. |
| 1999 | USA | Refusal of USA to sign a treaty banning nuclear tests. |
| 1999 | Panama | USA military tests chemicals like Agent Orange, mustard gas, VX, sarin and cyanide in Panama. |
| 2001 | Iraq | Human aftermath of 96,000 depleted Uranium shells dropped on Iraq since 1991. |
| 2001 | USA | Unilateral USA withdrawal from missile and biological treaties. |
| 2003 | Iraq | Effects of depleted Uranium used in Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War. Declaration that it will be used again in the 2003 invasion. |
| 2003 | Iraq | Use of depleted Uranium. |
| 2003 | Iraq | Use of napalm near Baghdad. |
| 2003 | USA and others | Storage of nuclear weapons in the USA and other countries. |
| 2003 | Colombia | Toxic spraying. |
| 2004 | Iraq | Use of napalm in Fallujah. |
| 2005 | Vietnam | Legal case about the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam. |
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