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Chemical Weapons

Soldiers practice responding to a chemical or biological weapons attack.

How Russia worked to undermine UN bioweapons investigations

By Filippa Lentzos, Jez Littlewood | Chemical Weapons

A November 2018 meeting of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons that ran late into the night. Credit: Reint Vogelar/Twitter

How to bridge the gender gap in arms control and disarmament

By Renata H. Dalaqua | Chemical Weapons, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Richard Lugar with Barack Obama in 2005 at a Russian base where mobile launch missiles were being destroyed by the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. At the time, Lugar was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Obama was a member of the committee.

Farewell to American statesman Richard Lugar

By Dawn Stover | Biosecurity, Chemical Weapons, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Six words that defined 2018

By Thomas Gaulkin | Analysis, Chemical Weapons, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The Syrian city of Aleppo depicted in the midst of a still ongoing civil war. Credit: British Foreign and Commonwealth Office / Basma CC BY-ND 2.0

Terrorists sometimes use chemical weapons, but the OPCW should focus on states

By Al Mauroni | Analysis, Chemical Weapons, Disruptive Technologies

Chemical weapons treaty: Time for chemical industry to step up

By Sico van der Meer, Peter van Ham | Chemical Weapons

Jennifer Exelby leads a team of chemical-agent handlers at the US Army’s Edgewood Chemical Biological Center. Photo Credit: US Army

A wearable to detect chemical weapons

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, Chemical Weapons, What We’re Reading

US service members conduct a chemical warfare exercise.

Strengthen the taboo against biological and chemical weapons

By Filippa Lentzos | Biosecurity, Chemical Weapons

Baby Trump balloon

Now it’s murder

By Elisabeth Eaves | Chemical Weapons, What We’re Reading

Why the OPCW should attribute responsibility for chemical attacks

By John R. Walker | Chemical Weapons