Iran has likely developed fentanyl-based chemical weapons
Iran is believed to have weaponized pharmaceutical agents to kill or incapacitate.These chemical weapons affect a victim's ...
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WWI Centenary: The first world war saw the birth of modern chemical weapons, with poison gas and mustard gas spreading terror
The first world war saw the first widespread combat use of modern chemical weapons, starting with the 168 tonnes of chlorine released by the Germans over the trenches near Ypres. Officers hoped ...
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World War I. Chemical Weapons Convention
"For more than 30 years, the United States has worked tirelessly to eliminate our chemical weapons stockpile," President Joe Biden said in a statement released by the White House. Advisory Alert ...
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Putin deploying new WW1-style undetectable gas weapon on frontline to choke Ukrainian soldiers, claims Kyiv
AN INCREASINGLY desperate Russia has begun deploying a mysterious new gas on the battlefield in Ukraine. The sinister use of chemical warfare against the Ukrainian troops comes as Volodymyr ...
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A brief history of chemical warfare
The world's horror led the League of Nations in 1925 to draft the Geneva Protocol, banning chemical weapons in war and declaring that their use "has been justly condemned by the general opinion of ...
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Ukraine conflict: How will we know if Russia used chemical weapons?
Chemical weapons were used in World War One, in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, and more recently by the Syrian government against rebel forces. Russia says it destroyed the last of its chemical ...
My list of weapons Europe can give Ukraine now - before it’s too late
Europeans are asking what they can do to keep Ukraine armed if U.S. military aid were to be cut back.At first glance, it ...
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Biological and Chemical Terror History
Even in ancient times, war wasn't all swords and longbows ... Some deadly landmarks: Lessons learned: The horror of chemical weapons left the world reeling. The Geneva Convention made an attempt ...
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Nuclear Weapons Worldwide
Nuclear weapons are still here—and they’re still an existential ... armed submarine have seven times the destructive power of all the bombs dropped during World War II, including the two atomic bombs ...
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100 years ago, the United States enters World War I
On the battlefield, 19th-century tactics soon proved useless against 20th-century weapons. Terrorizing ... rolled their way into battle in World War I. Chemical warfare, in the form of chlorine ...
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Spain arrests 4 accused of shipping possible precursors for chemical weapons to Russia, breaching sanctions
"During the investigation, it was proven that internationally sanctioned chemicals, some of them possible precursors for chemical weapons or nerve agents, had been exported in the past using this ...