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Chemical Weapons Convention

Soldiers practice responding to a chemical or biological weapons attack.

What’s a chemical weapon? A global weapons treaty could use some clarity

By Lennie Phillips​ | Chemical Weapons

Public health lab in Georgia.

Russian nuclear and biological disinformation undermines treaties on weapons of mass destruction

By Milton Leitenberg | Biosecurity, Chemical Weapons, Nuclear Weapons

A photo shared on Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny's instagram account shows Alexey Navalny on a hospital bed surrounded by his wife and two children as his treatment continues at Charite Hospital in Berlin, Germany on September 15, 2020. Navalny was poisoned, German doctors from a clinic where he is being treated announced. (Photo by Alexey Navalny Instagram Account /Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The Navalny poisoning: Moscow evades accountability and mocks the Chemical Weapons Convention

By Oliver Meier, Alexander Kelle | Analysis, Biosecurity

US President Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi.

Myanmar should finally come clean about its chemical weapons past—with US help

By Gregory D. Koblentz, Madeline Roty | Technology and Security

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

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

Our WMD treaties are working

By Paul Meyer | Uncategorized

Unearthing poison: Disposal of abandoned chemical weapons in China

By Wanglai Gao | Uncategorized

In the zone? Chemical weapons and the Middle East: The Israeli response

By Emily B. Landau | Uncategorized

In the zone? Chemical weapons and the Middle East: The US response

By J. Hart | Uncategorized