After its independence, Israel assessed that its existence as a state was under perpetual threat and considered the development of chemical and nuclear weapons essential for its survival. One account ...

The countdown has begun for the upcoming conference, "30 Years of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC): Histories, Achievements, Challenges," scheduled to take place on October 5-6, 2023 in ...

Last October, a video surfaced in the Kurdish news media showing what look to be soldiers on a rocky outcropping near the opening of a cave. One appears to insert some sort of rod into the opening ...

Pakistan has underscored the need to address foreign military occupation of parts of Syria, air strikes and terrorism to 'enable a conducive environment for resolution of chemical-weapons-related ...

U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. I vividly remember the moment the United States became one of the 130 original signatories to the Chemical Weapons Convention ...

Russia’s Deflections and Denials of Chemical Weapons Use in Ukraine: Forty-one nations met in the Netherlands to discuss enforcing the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international ban on ...

The U.S. State Department has accused Russia of using chemical weapons during its invasion of Ukraine, with the Treasury Department issuing sanctions related to Moscow's alleged chemical and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Wednesday accused Russia of violating the international chemical weapons ban by deploying the choking agent chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops and using ...

On 29 April 2022, we mark the 25 th anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their ...