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Bioterrorism and U.S. domestic preparedness: Bureaucratic fragmentation and American vulnerability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article takes a closer look at the United States’ domestic preparedness program. Beginning in the mid-1990s, the domestic preparedness program has served as the United States’ disaster response and management option in the case of a biological or ...
Fry-Pierce, Christine C.   +1 more
core   +1 more source

The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction: History of Signing and Key Points

open access: yesВестник войск РХБ защиты, 2020
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (the Chemical Weapons Convention or CWC) was approved by the U.N. General Assembly on 30 November 1992.
V. N. Fateenkov
doaj   +1 more source

The Start of the State Program of CW Destruction in Russia

open access: yesВестник войск РХБ защиты, 2023
The last chemical munition from Russian arsenals of chemical weapons has been destroyed September 22, 2017, at the Kizner facility in Udmurtia. Chemical weapons (CW) destruction started at the times of the demise of the USSR and the change of political ...
S. V. Petrov
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Riot Control Agents and Chemical Weapons Arms Control in the United States

open access: yesJournal of Strategic Security, 2012
This article examines the issue of riot control agents as it relates to the subject of chemical weapons arms control at the international level and, more specifically, implications for the United States. The article examines how the issue of riot control
Sean P. Giovanello
doaj   +1 more source

Chemical Weapons in the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988). 4. The Destruction of Iraqi Chemical Weapons

open access: yesВестник войск РХБ защиты, 2020
After the defeat of Iraqi army in Kuwait in February 1991, on April 3, the UN Security Council (UN Security Council) adopted Resolution 687, that «decides that Iraq shall unconditionally accept the destruction, removal, or rendering harmless, under ...
M. V. Supotnitskiy   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The war on the OPCW

open access: yesGlobal Biosecurity, 2023
For the past five years, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has been the target of a concerted disinformation campaign. Ahead of the Fifth Review Conference on the Chemical Weapons Convention, CBRN Perspectives & Analytics looks ...
Joel Keep, David Heslop
doaj   +1 more source

Le contrôle des armements et les armes chimiques [PDF]

open access: yes, 1982
Since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the media has gone to great lengths to assess the relative capabilities of Warsaw Pact and NATO forces. Chemical weapons have not been neglected in these assessments, with the conclusion usually being that ...
Vachon, G.K.
core   +1 more source

PARP inhibition and pharmacological ascorbate demonstrate synergy in castration‐resistant prostate cancer

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Pharmacologic ascorbate (vitamin C) increases ROS, disrupts cellular metabolism, and induces DNA damage in CRPC cells. These effects sensitize tumors to PARP inhibition, producing synergistic growth suppression with olaparib in vitro and significantly delayed tumor progression in vivo. Pyruvate rescue confirms ROS‐dependent activity.
Nicolas Gordon   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chemical warfare agents

open access: yesJournal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences, 2010
Among the Weapons of Mass Destruction, chemical warfare (CW) is probably one of the most brutal created by mankind in comparison with biological and nuclear warfare.
K Ganesan, S K Raza, R Vijayaraghavan
doaj   +3 more sources

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