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Challenges of Verification: Smaller States and Arms Control, 2019
Chemical weapons are prohibited, however recent chemical weapons attacks in Malaysia, Syria, Iraq and the UK have raised concerns about their use. In the UK in 2018, four people were taken seriously ill and one person died following exposure to a Novichok, a type of nerve agent.
Jeni Spragg, Lorna Christie
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Chemical weapons are prohibited, however recent chemical weapons attacks in Malaysia, Syria, Iraq and the UK have raised concerns about their use. In the UK in 2018, four people were taken seriously ill and one person died following exposure to a Novichok, a type of nerve agent.
Jeni Spragg, Lorna Christie
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Catalysis from A to Z, 2017
Weapons which cause injuries of various kinds and degrees to man and beast by the use of the asphyxiating, toxic, irritant, paralysing, growth-regulating, anti-lubricating or catalytic properties of a solid, liquid or gaseous chemical.
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Weapons which cause injuries of various kinds and degrees to man and beast by the use of the asphyxiating, toxic, irritant, paralysing, growth-regulating, anti-lubricating or catalytic properties of a solid, liquid or gaseous chemical.
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The Two Faces of Opposition to Chemical Weapons: Sincere Versus Insincere Norm-Holders
Social Science Research Network, 2021Prominent research holds that the use of weapons of mass destruction is taboo. But how strong are these norms? Investigating this question among the mass public, we argue that some citizens actually support taboo policies in private but are unwilling to ...
C. Blair, Jonathan A. Chu, J. Schwartz
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Ricin and Saxitoxin: Two Natural Products That Became Chemical Weapons
, 2020Ricin and saxitoxin are highly toxic natural products that have been weaponized and are included in Schedule 1 of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
M. Sierra, R. Martínez‐Álvarez
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Preventing Chemical Weapons: Arms Control and Disarmament as the Sciences Converge
Strategic Analysis, 2019This 652-page book has six main sections and in total 21 chapters, including the introduction and conclusion. The basic themes discussed in the book include the prevention and disarmament issues related to the Chemical and Biological Weapons and the ...
A. Lele
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Nuclear disarmament and the end of the chemical weapons ‘system of restraint’
International Affairs, 2019With the Cold War as a starting point, it was possible for decades to offer an optimistic assessment of a general trend towards disarmament when it came to describing the future of chemical and nuclear weapons.
J. Wirtz
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Controlling Novichoks after Salisbury: revising the Chemical Weapons Convention schedules
The Nonproliferation Review, 2019Novichok agents are a class of nerve agents developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. In light of the use of a Novichok agent in Salisbury in March 2018, two sets of proposals to amend Sch...
S. Costanzi, Gregory D. Koblentz
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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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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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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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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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Environmental science and pollution research international, 2022
Yan Zhang +5 more
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