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Police officers wearing riot gear push back demonstrators outside the White House June 1, 2020, during a protest over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes. (Photo: Jose Luis Magana, Getty Images)

Science & Health

1 month ago

Tear Gas Is Dangerous and Should Be Illegal

Ed Cara

Kim Jong Un’s Half Brother Kim Jong Nam, Killed With VX Nerve Agent, Was Reportedly CIA Informant

Online

1 year ago

Kim Jong Un’s Half Brother Kim Jong Nam, Killed With VX Nerve Agent, Was Reportedly CIA Informant

Tom McKay

Report: More Than 300 Chemical Weapons Attacks In Syria, With Pro-Assad Forces Responsible For 98 Per Cent

Science & Health

1 year ago

Report: More Than 300 Chemical Weapons Attacks In Syria, With Pro-Assad Forces Responsible For 98 Per Cent

Tom McKay

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).

Woman Exposed To Soviet-Era Nerve Agent Novichok In UK Dies

Science & Health

2 years ago

Woman Exposed To Soviet-Era Nerve Agent Novichok In UK Dies

Tom McKay

British Counter-Terrorism Officials Are Investigating Two More Novichok Poisonings

Science & Health

2 years ago

British Counter-Terrorism Officials Are Investigating Two More Novichok Poisonings

Tom McKay

Neil Basu, Britain’s top counter-terrorism official, announced today that a couple poisoned in the county of Wiltshire appear to have been exposed to Novichok, the Soviet-era nerve agent behind the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury earlier this year.

Independent Experts Say Russian Spy And Daughter Poisoned By Nerve Agent Novichok

Science & Health

2 years ago

Independent Experts Say Russian Spy And Daughter Poisoned By Nerve Agent Novichok

Matt Novak

Russia: Well, Maybe It Was Actually The UK That Poisoned Our Ex-Spy With Our Soviet-Era Nerve Agent

Science & Health

2 years ago

Russia: Well, Maybe It Was Actually The UK That Poisoned Our Ex-Spy With Our Soviet-Era Nerve Agent

Tom McKay

DARPA Has A Simple Plan To Clean Up The World’s Deadliest Weapons

Science & Health

4 years ago

DARPA Has A Simple Plan To Clean Up The World’s Deadliest Weapons

Maddie Stone

Getting rid of chemical weapons is one of the military’s most unpleasant duties. But in the future, it may be no more difficult than incinerating garbage, thanks to a team of DARPA-funded scientists who think they can turn some of the world’s deadliest poisons into harmless dirt.

Inside The Bunkers Where The US Will Obliterate Its Chemical Weapons

Science & Health

5 years ago

Inside The Bunkers Where The US Will Obliterate Its Chemical Weapons

Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

6 years ago

Thousands Of Tons Of Nazi Chemical Weapons Are Hiding In The Baltic Sea

Sarah Zhang

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