The Second World War challenges any automatic link between possessing a weapon and employing it. Britain and Germany held the two largest available chemical and biological weapon stockpiles, yet neither used them against the other. Germany also refrained from using those weapons against the Soviet Union. Because the brief comparison does not identify the reasons for non-use, it establishes an example of restraint without offering a complete theory of deterrence.
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Large chemical and biological arsenals did not guarantee wartime use
Britain and Germany possessed major chemical and biological weapon stockpiles during the Second World War yet did not employ them against one another.