ENVIRONMENTAL WARFARE.

The article presents a discussion of the impact of war on the environment. Some wars in the past have shown just how damaging modern war is to the environment. The incident covering the use of herbicides and defoliants in Vietnam was the first occurrence that the biosphere had been systematically assailed for military purposes. A proposal prohibiting the military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques has been submitted by the United States and the Soviet Union to the Committee on Disarmament (CCD) in year 1975.