THREE new and powerful weapons of warfare were developed in the World War -- aëroplanes, gas and submarines. It is fortunate for the world that two of these -- aëroplanes and gas -- are bound up with ...

The use of prohibited chemical weapons by the Russian military had become "standardized and commonplace" in Ukraine, Dutch ...

The Iran-Iraq War complicates the conventional wisdom that chemical warfare is strategically ineffective. In that conflict, chemical weapons were arguably decisive in allowing Iraq to reclaim the ...

As part of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which was ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1997, the U.S. and other signatories are required to destroy their chemical weapons stockpile by Sept. 30, 2023.