Governments that sent troops to the Gulf War in 1990 continue to dismiss much of the chronic ill health suffered by many veterans as psychological. But evidence continues to mount that some of it was really caused by the chronic effects of nerve gas and similar chemicals.
“Psychological attributions have never made sense,” says Beatrice Golomb of the University of California, San Diego. “There was only a four-day ground war with relatively few people exposed to combat, yet much higher rates of illness and different symptoms compared with other deployments.”
Golomb reviewed 115 scientific publications on illness in Gulf War…
