Nine years after the invasion of Kuwait: The impacts of the Iraqi left-over ordnance

Environmentalist

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 361-368

  Khuraibet, Ali Muhammad ^a  

^a Applied Medical Sciences Department   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; MILITARY INTERVENTION;

KUWAIT;

EID: 0033380777     PISSN: 02511088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006662123050     Document Type: Article

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