The environmental effects of the use of weapons of mass destruction during international wars

Abstract

This stay aims to analyse the effects of using the weapons on mass destruction with their defferents kinds ( biological, chemicals and nuclear) on environment in the international wars like in the world war one (The Germans launched the chlorine in 1915 and the motardgaz in 1917), also in the world war two the American launch the nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 this cas become an real inquiry for international community in the wave of technological development and the destructive ability of those weapons. This study give a examples of international weapons when using the weapons of mass destruction and study the environmental risks and also study the international works from international community to limit the using this weapons in the international level.

Keywords

• weapons of mass destruction
• armed conflicts
• environmental effects
• international wars
• environmental risks