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Dow manufactured napalm, the chemical weapon used by the military to defoliate the jungles of Vietnam while severely burning and killing substantial numbers of civilians.
—TIME, 10 May 2024
Numerous charges have been leveled against the alleged kingpin, including for murder, kidnapping, assault, racketeering, bank fraud, use of a chemical weapon and cocaine distribution.
—Christina Coulter, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2024
Then, in August, 2020, the F.S.B. poisoned Navalny with Novichok, a chemical weapon.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
The unidentified individual offered to provide guidance on missiles and unmanned aircraft, as well as the construction of a chemical weapon.
—Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023
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First Known Use
1920, in the meaning defined above
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“Chemical weapon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chemical%20weapon. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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