Political Quotes

On the recordJanuary 18, 1988
This and other actions to modernize our limited chemical retaliatory capability serve to deter the use of chemical weapons by our potential adversaries.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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

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