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Comparative Prediction of Gas Chromatographic Retention Indices for GC/MS Identification of Chemicals Related to Chemical Weapons Convention by Incremental and Machine Learning Methods

Separations, 2022
During on-site verification activities conducted by the Technical Secretariat of Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, identification by gas chromatography retention indices (RI) data, in addition to mass spectrometry data, increase the ...
Albert Kireev, Sergey Osipenko, Gary Mallard, Evgeny Nikolaev, Yury Kostyukevich   +4 more
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Underestimations in the In Silico-Predicted Toxicities of V-Agents [PDF]

Journal of Xenobiotics, 2023
V-agents are exceedingly toxic nerve agents. Recently, it was highlighted that V-agents constitute a diverse subclass of compounds with most of them not extensively studied. Although chemical weapons have been banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention
Georgios Pampalakis
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History of Organophosphorus Compounds in the Context of Their Use as Chemical Warfare Agents [PDF]

Molecules
This is a broad look at the history of phosphorus—from the element through its inorganic and organic compounds to the applications of organophosphates.
Maciej Boczkowski, Stanisław Popiel, Jakub Nawała, Hubert Suska   +3 more
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Classification, Chemical, and Toxicological Properties of Carbamate Nerve Agents [PDF]

Journal of Xenobiotics
Nerve agents are usually identified as exceedingly toxic organophosphate compounds like VX and sarin. Nevertheless, although carbamate nerve agents (CNAs) have been developed they constitute the least studied class of nerve agents outside military ...
Georgios Pampalakis
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Regulation of toxins and bioregulators under the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity
In this paper we highlight how the apparent double coverage of toxins and bioregulators by both the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in fact masks a regulatory gap that has left such potentially ...
Michael Crowley, Malcolm Dando
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Preserving the norm against chemical weapons: A civil society initiative for the 2018 4th review conference of the chemical weapons convention

Futures, 2018
Acceleration of the applications of cutting edge science is often most likely in situations involving conflict and warfare between different groups. That is the focus of this paper.
Lijun Shang, Malcolm Dando, Michael Crowley   +2 more
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Thirty Years of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)

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Meeting the Challenges of Chemical and Biological Weapons: Strengthening the Chemical and Biological Disarmament and Non-proliferation Regimes

Frontiers in Political Science, 2022
In this report, we identify some of the key technical and political challenges currently facing the broader Chemical and Biological Weapon (CBW) regime- with a particular emphasis on major forthcoming diplomatic meetings.
Brett Edwards, Tatyana Novossiolova, Michael Crowley, Simon Whitby, Malcolm Dando, Lijun Shang, Lijun Shang   +6 more
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GC-MS Study of Mono- and Bishaloethylphosphonates Related to Schedule 2.B.04 of the Chemical Weapons Convention: The Discovery of a New Intramolecular Halogen Transfer

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2016
Miguel A Sierra, Martínez-Alvarez Roberto, Esther Gómez-Caballero   +2 more
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Rethinking biosecurity in the 21st century: An enhanced role for civil society

Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, 2023
In this paper, we briefly discuss the historical issues concerning the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) and analyse the current situation after the COVID-19 pandemic with emphasis on the new developments at 9th Review Conference of the BTWC.
Lijun Shang, Malcolm Dando
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