chemical weapons
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What is the Chemical Agent Reportedly Used to Poison Russian Politician Alexei Navalny?
The medical evacuation of Alexei Navalny, the outspoken political critic of Vladimir Putin who was allegedly poisoned last week, has shed more light on his illness. The Charité – Universitätsmedizin hospital in Berlin said in a statement yesterday: The patient is being treated in intensive care and remains in a medically induced coma. While his…
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Report: More Than 300 Chemical Weapons Attacks In Syria, With Pro-Assad Forces Responsible For 98 Per Cent
Well over 300 chemical weapons attacks have occurred during the nearly eight years-long Syrian civil war, with President Bashar al-Assad’s government and its allies accounting for the vast majority of them, the Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing new research by the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI).
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Independent Experts Say Russian Spy And Daughter Poisoned By Nerve Agent Novichok
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an international watchdog group, has confirmed that Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned using a military-grade nerve agent called Novichok. The findings come as Russian officials continue to deny that Russia had anything to do with the poisoning of the former double agent.
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Inside The Bunkers Where The US Will Obliterate Its Chemical Weapons
If you were driving across the beautiful southern Colorado landscape near Pueblo, you probably wouldn’t even notice them: almost one thousand concrete storage “igloos” burrowed into the landscape. This 23,000-acre complex has stored the remaining biggest cache of chemical weapons in the US since World War II. Now, it’s the site of a huge operation…