CHEMICAL WARFARE

Articles and editorials

Agent of Destruction—Viet Vet Is Convinced of Herbicide's Health Risks, 32973 [19NO]

Agent Orange and the Anguish of an American Family, 7662-7665 [1AP]

Army Begins Producing Chemical Weapons, Ending 18-Year Moratorium, 35985 [17DE]

Chemical Weapons Convention—Major Progress and Remaining Problems, 35986-35988 [17DE]

40 Nations Closer to a Pact Banning Chemical Weapons, 10849 [30AP]

Modernizing Chemical, 12784 [19MY]

Plague of ``Hellish Poison'', 28781 [21OC]

Bills and resolutions

Chemical weapons: production (see H.R. 359)

Convention on Prohibition of Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological and Toxin Weapons and Their Destruction: prohibit certain conduct relative to biological weapons (see H.R. 901)

Nonproliferation: promote (see H.R. 2880)

Books

``My Father, My Son,'' Elmo Zumwalt III, 7662 [1AP]

Hearings

Committee on Appropriations (House): chemical weapons and demilitarization, Navy weapons and other procurement (testimony from Robert B. Barker, James R. Ambrose, William D. Smith, and Robert H. Ailes), D139 [11MR]

———Dept. of Defense chemical and theater nuclear weapons budget (testimony), D182 [23MR]

Committee on Appropriations (Senate): chemical munitions disposal facilities (testimony from David Leland, Katherine Flood, Senator Ford, Representative Bentley, Robert B. Barker, James R. Ambrose, David Nydam, Tom J. Brew, and David L. Armstrong), D102 [3MR]

Letters

Bigeye bomb operational test plan evaluation: Eleanor Chelimsky, GAO, 32666 [18NO]

Chemical weapons ban: George P. Shultz, Sec. of State, 11723 [7MY]

Messages

Certification of Statutory Requirements for Production of Chemical Binary Weapons: President Reagan, 28304 [19OC]

Remarks in House

Weapons: disposal, 12049 [12MY], 30261 [29OC]

———moratorium on production, 12049 [12MY], 12776-12790 [19MY], 36260 [18DE]

———proliferation, 20302 [21JY], 28781 [21OC]

———vulnerability of U.S. servicemen, 28781 [21OC]

Remarks in Senate

Dept. of Defense: prohibit certain functions at arsenals and manufacturing facilities from being transferred to private contractors (S. 736), 8998 [10AP]

Weapons: ban, 10849 [30AP], 11724 [7MY]

———binary chemical weapons funding, 25122-25154 [24SE]

———building of disposal facilities, 1884, 1885 [22JA]

———bigeye nerve gas bomb funding, 13637 [21MY], 35985 [17DE]

Statements

Chemical Weapons: U.S. arms control negotiator, 12777, 12787, 12789 [19MY]