HC Deb 19 October 1989 vol 158 c254W
Mr. Sillars

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which members of the Warsaw pact other than the Soviet Union produce chemical weapons.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

All non-Soviet Warsaw pact countries have civil chemical industries capable of producing chemical warfare agents and their pre-cursors. We have good reason to believe that several non-Soviet Warsaw pact countries have undertaken offensive chemical warfare research and development programmes and that in some cases these have been taken forward to the production stage.

Mr. Sillars

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which NATO countries have chemical warfare stocks.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

The United States possesses a limited retaliatory stockpile of chemical weapons.