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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

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

How UNSCOM found and destroyed Iraq’s biological weapons

By Filippa Lentzos, Henrietta Wilson | Biosecurity

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

chemical weapons inspectors

North Korea’s other weapons of mass destruction

By Alexandra Bell, Abby Pokraka | Analysis

Why the OPCW should attribute responsibility for chemical attacks

By John R. Walker | Chemical Weapons

Burma nuclear program highlights the need for a standing UN technical body

By Robert Kelley | Uncategorized