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Spiez scientists work for peace

This content was published on Dec 9, 2006 On behalf of international organisations, it trains experts and sends specialists to war zones or polluted sites from Siberia to Iraq. Since ancient times man has used poison on the battlefield. But it was during the First World War that it became a weapon of mass destruction. A ban laid down by the 1899 Hague…