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- India and USA military recently conducted the TARKASHA exercise in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
- It is a joint exercise by the National Security Guard (NSG) and US Special Operations Forces (SOF).
- For the first time “Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN)” terror response was included in this drill.
- CBRN weapons have the capability of creating mass casualties as well as mass disruption and therefore, are classified as weapons of mass destruction.
- The Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use of CBRN in War, also known as the Geneva Protocol, signed on June 17, 1925, at Geneva, Switzerland.
- It entered into force on February 8, 1928.
- Most recent use of CBRN weapons is came in the form of a sarin gas attack carried out by the Syrian army in 2013 against civilians during the Syrian Civil War.
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