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Chemical Agent Use in Terrorist Events: A Gathering Storm Requiring Enhanced Civilian Preparedness

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2022
Background: The use of chemical weapons in terrorist attacks, though rare, remains a significant challenge and concern due to their ability to inflict mass casualties.
D. Tin, G. Ciottone
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Beating hydrogen with its own weapon: Nano-twin gradients enhance embrittlement resistance of a high-entropy alloy

Materials Today, 2018
High-entropy alloys have shown exceptional damage tolerance at cryogenic temperatures. Here we report that this essential property can be maintained even when exposing the equiatomic CoCrFeMnNi alloy to the most detrimental environmental condition known ...
Hong Luo, Wen-Jun Lu, Xu-Fei Fang, D. Ponge, Zhi-Ming Li, D. Raabe   +5 more
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Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons and the Chemical Weapons Convention

1996
During the late 1980’s the public became generally aware of the fact that another chemical time bomb is ticking: the chemical weapon (CW) munitions which were dumped after World War II in the Baltic and the North Sea. At the end of World War II, the Allies were faced with the problem of how to get rid of more than 300,000 tonnes of CW munitions which ...
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Chemical Weapons

2007
AbstractThis chapter describes chemical weapons, including the history of their development and use in World War I and beyond, classification of chemical weapons, and international control of chemical weapons. It also describes potential chemical weapons of the future.
Herman Spanjaard, Oxana Khabib
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The Destruction of Chemical Weapons Under the Chemical Weapons Convention

1997
The conclusion of negotiations on the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and Their Destruction (CWC), in the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva in August 1992, brought to an end 20 years of negotiations on a comprehensive treaty to eliminate chemical weapons.
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Novichoks - The A group of organophosphorus chemical warfare agents.

Chemosphere, 2019
Novichok use has become symbol for the chemical substances use to carry out political assassinations. In the last century, poisonous warfare agents were used for the first time on the battlefields, almost all over the world.
M. Kloske, Z. Witkiewicz
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The Chemical Weapons Convention and old and abandoned chemical weapons

1997
Abstract There is general agreement that the destruction of chemical weapons owned or possessed by a State Party to the Chemical Weapons Convention after 1 January 1946 will be a major focus of the Convention in the first 10 years after its entry into force. Destruction must be completed within 10 years.
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Chemical warfare agents. Classes and targets.

Toxicology Letters, 2017
Synthetic toxic chemicals (toxicants) and biological poisons (toxins) have been developed as chemical warfare agents in the last century. At the time of their initial consideration as chemical weapon, only restricted knowledge existed about their ...
M. Schwenk
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Molecular level removal of antibiotic resistant bacteria and genes: A review of interfacial chemical in advanced oxidation processes.

Water Research
As a kind of novel and persistent environmental pollutants, antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) have been frequently detected in different aquatic environment, posing potential risks to public health and ecosystems,
Fei Li, Kewang Liu, Yueping Bao, Yan-Xiao Li, Zhi-Yong Zhao, Peng-Fei Wang, S. Zhan   +6 more
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Chemical Weapons

2022
There is wide agreement that using chemical weapons in warfare is abhorrent and must be prohibited. Chemical weapons have nonetheless, even recently, been used. This chapter argues that chemical weapons are prohibited on the basis of both the international humanitarian law (IHL) principles pertaining to means of warfare as well as arm control law. This
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