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Organization for the Prohibition of 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

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