Rattling the Nuclear Cage: India, Pakistan, Israel, Iran and the US - CounterPunch.org

Rattling the Nuclear Cage: India, Pakistan, Israel, Iran and the US - CounterPunch.org: The word “nuclear” is not just a harmless adjective. Look at the old photographs of the blisters on the dying Japanese of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Iran itself suffered the horrors of gas warfare when Iraq – supported at the time by the US – used chemicals on Iranian soldiers and civilians. I saw their gas-gangrene wounds with my own eyes in the late 1980s and they reminded me of the Hiroshima snapshots. The Iranians really do know the effects of “weapons of mass destruction”. More