no transfer of the nuclear bombs or control over them is intended "unless and until a decision were made to go to war, at which the [NPT] treaty would no longer be controlling", so there is no breach of the NPT. Dutch production of precursors to chemical weapons Alongside companies from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the United States, Belgium, Spain, India, and Brazil, Dutch companies provided Iraq with the chemicals used as precursors to produce chemical weapons for use against Iran in the Iran–Iraq War. Suffering from chemical warfare during the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988), 2000 Iranians submitted an indictment some years ago with a Tehran court against nine companies that had provided Saddam Hussein with such chemicals, and 455 American and European companies, two thirds being German, provided aid to Iraq during its war with Iran. The United Nations published a 12,000-page report about the conflict and named the companies involved. Poison gas experiments On 20 February 2008, it was revealed that the Netherlands had conducted chemical warfare experiments with nerve gas in the early 1950s. These experiments were conducted by the TNO organization on the request of the Defense Department. They consisted of the use of sarin, tabun, soman, and a modified French gas called Stof X (Substance X), which was more poisonous than sarin. The experiments were carried out on animals in the village of Harskamp and on the Vliehors bombing range, located on the island of Vlieland. After 1956, the only experiments were those conducted jointly with France and Belgium in the desert of Algeria, which utilized 6 kilograms of Stof X. The reason behind these experiments was the fear of an attack by the Soviet Union. See also Nuclear sharing References Sources , Contained in an exchange of letters between Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Pres Lyndon B.Johnson, declassified 2002, and now in the UK National Archives, London filed as DEFE 24/691-E28 Weapons of mass destruction by country Military history of the Netherlands Foreign relations of the Netherlands