The Binary Nerve Gas Shell Game.

Last month defense ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) endorsed the U.S. plans to add nerve gas to the alliance arsenal, thus, according to U.S. President Ronald Reagan administration, fulfilling the condition of NATO acceptance that Congress had set before it would appropriate money for manufacturing weapons. In 1969, in the face of rising criticism about the American use of chemicals in Vietnam, President Richard Nixon declared a moratorium on the production of lethal chemicals and unilaterally renounced the use of biological warfare.