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The Netherlands is also one of the producers of components that can be used for creating deadly agents, chemical weapons and other kinds of weapons of mass destruction. Several Dutch companies provided the United States, Israel and Pakistan with components for these weapons.
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The U.S. insists that its forces control the weapons and that no transfer of the nuclear bombs or control over them is intended "unless and until a decision were made to go to war, at which the treaty would no longer be controlling", so there is no breach of the NPT.
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court against nine companies that had provided Saddam Hussein with such chemicals, and 455 American and European companies, two thirds being German, provided aid to
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Alongside companies from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the United States, Belgium, Spain, India, and Brazil, Dutch companies provided
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warplanes. (The Dutch government has never formally admitted or denied the presence of these weapons, but former prime ministers
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nuclear artillery shells for its self-propelled howitzers and missile artillery units. These 8 inch shells and warheads for
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organization on the request of the Defense Department. They consisted of the use of
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published a 12,000-page report about the conflict and named the companies involved.
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In the past (1960s till 1990s), the Netherlands took part in the deployment of
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On 20 February 2008, it was revealed that the Netherlands had conducted
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aircraft. The storage arrangements were agreed in 1965 between the
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Norris, Robert S.; Andrew Burrows; Richard Fieldhouse (1994).
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and on the Vliehors bombing range, located on the island of
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in the early 1950s. These experiments were conducted by the
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Index

Weapons of mass destruction

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