I completed reading my back ground research on Chemical and Biological warfare in Ranger, Robin, The Canadian Contribution to the Control of Chemical and Biological Warfare (Toronto, Ont.: Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1976). This book introduced me to international policy based on technical expertise. This also covered a middle power Canada influencing the major power the USA.

Now in our course we may look at CBW policy because this was an issue in Iraq.

This book taught me that chemical weapons facilities can not be verified as easily as biological and thus this non verifiability was a stumbling block to updating chemical weapons agreements for arms control.

This book could show how we ended up doing what we have done in Iraq. But is that all of us? Did we all do something in Iraq? I have a vauge idea that chemical warfare was used in the Iran-Iraq war. I had seen soliders die in troves on TV as they were gased. So was it Iraq's path or the path of the US or the path of arms control that lead to the frantic search for chemical and biological weapons in Iraq.

Also this book at no time said it was possible for a smaller power to effectively use these types of weapons. Especially biological weapons were beyond the hands of smaller states so we could assume that terrorists could not have had the ability to use these weapons in 1976. Whether they have them now is another question that I think plays into massive changes in quality around the world(globalism), in this case the quality of chemical weapons production tools.