Radio War Nerd EP 451 — Tear Gas in Warfare

Recorded: June 19, 2024 Last month, the US accused Russia of using banned chemical weapons in Ukraine — chloropicrin, and CS tear gas — adding new sanctions in response. We discuss actual US policy re: banned CS gas in warfare, chloropicrin in your strawberries, and recover some lost history of US military's widespread use of tear gas as a battlefield weapon in the Vietnam War. Works cited:-Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War: Riot Control Agents in Combat, by D. Hank Ellison-"Poison Gas in Vietnam", Seymour Hersh, New York Review of Books, May 9, 1968-"Russia is using toxic chemical weapons, wrecking a ban it helped create," Washington Post, May 6, 2024-"Claims of Chemical Weapon Use in Ukraine 'Insufficiently Substantiated': Watchdog", Kyiv Post, May 7, 2024 Total time: 1:33:51 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Subscribe to Radio War Nerd at patreon.com/radiowarnerd Sound production by Telescope Audio Check out the Radio War Nerd Merch store here! Order your print or ebook of John Dolan's new book Erdogan Pizza: Dispatches from a Violent & Grotesque World