ABSTRACT
Introduction After the 1991 Gulf War allied and Iraqi military leaders met on the battlefield and agreed the terms of a formal ceasefire in which Iraq agreed to abide by all UN Security Council resolutions that had been passed against it. This included demands that Iraq destroy all of its chemical and biological weapons and its ballistic missiles over a certain range, and dismantle its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programmes (collectively referred to hereafter as weapons of mass destruction, or WMD). The United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) was established to inspect and monitor the elimination of the nonnuclear disarmament provisions of the resolutions and to assist the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the nuclear areas.
