In some ways, the fight to reduce threats from biological and chemical weapons looks like a roaring success. Chemical weapons have been prohibited by international treaty for more than 20 years, ...

But a chemical weapons attack — which killed some 1,400 ... chemical weapons emerged as one of the symbols of a, you know, an inhumane weapon. ... which outlawed chemical and biological weapons.

Germany was the first country to use chemical weapons, firing 150 tons of chlorine gas at French troops in Belgium in 1915. The allies began weaponizing chemicals as well after this.

Documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.

Chemical and biological weapons pose a greater threat to global security today than at any point since the end of the Cold War. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the United States’s disastrous ...

Following Iraq’s defeat in the first Gulf War of 1991, Iraq’s chemical weapons program was mostly dismantled by the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq from 1991 to 1998 under Security Council ...

Chemical weapons are labeled as 'weapons of mass destruction' as they harm civilians, non-combatants like aid workers indiscriminately, expert tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı breaking EDITION ...

Lessons learned: Even crude chemical and biological weapons create fear and panic. U.S. History Before World War I. Biological and chemical warfare is no stranger to American soil.

ISIS planned chemical attacks in Europe, new details on weapons program reveal. Alarmed by the threat, U.S. officials launched a 2015 operation to kill a key weapons expert with the terrorist group ...

The 1972 Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention bans the use, production, stockpiling, or acquisition of biological weapons. It does allow research with agents for vaccines or defensive purposes.

1 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Col. Vance M. Brunner (right), the operations director for the 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command, invited Dr. Dr ...