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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

leaking 122mm rockets in Iraq, containing chemical nerve agent

UNSCOM: A successful experiment in disarmament

By Åke Sellström | 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

War and the environment: The disturbing and under-researched legacy of depleted uranium weapons

By Elena Bruess, Joe Snell, Madhurita Goswami | Nuclear Risk, Special Topics

A Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drone.

Turkey’s military drones: an export product that’s disrupting NATO

By Dan Gettinger | Disruptive Technologies

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

Rare interview with captured scientist raises alarm over Islamic State chemical weapons program

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Russian air defense systems. Credit: Vitaly V. Kuzmin CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The international significance of Russian aerospace defenses

By Ivanka Barzashka | Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk

Putin: The one-man show the West doesn’t understand

By Fiona Hill | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Amid high tensions, an urgent need for nuclear restraint

By Anastasia Malygina, Sven-Eric Fikenscher, J. Nielsen | Uncategorized

Former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul

By John Mecklin | Interviews

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

By Mostafa Elwi Saif | Uncategorized

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

By Emily B. Landau | Uncategorized