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.