Ronald Reagan actually said...

This and other actions to modernize our limited chemical retaliatory capability serve to deter the use of chemical weapons by our potential adversaries.

Context

Memorandum on Certification of Production Facilities for the BIGEYE Binary Chemical Bomb

01/18/1988

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