State Department Sanctions Syrian Military Officials for Role in Ghouta Sarin Attack
Of the atrocities committed by the Assad regime, some of which rise to the level of war crimes and crimes ...
Tag: Chemical Weapons
Send in the Blow Flies: Using Insects to Sample Areas for Chemical Warfare Agents
Researchers at the School of Science at IUPUI have found that blow flies can be used as chemical sensors, with ...
Deterring Russia’s Biological, Chemical and Nuclear Threat
Biological, Chemical, and Nuclear Weapons: Can the West deter Russia from using them? The National Committee on American Foreign Policy ...
CounterACT: U.S. Funding Early Stage Drug Discovery of Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats (CounterACT) program has announced intentions to open a funding solicitation ...
4 Essential Reads to Understand Russia’s False Claims About Biological Weapons in Ukraine
On March 11, 2022, Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s U.N. ambassador, told the U.N. Security Council that Russia had discovered evidence of ...
Emergency Response Missions for Recovered Chemical Warfare Material
A group of seasoned U.S. Army civilians are often called to respond on short notice when suspected recovered chemical warfare ...
OPCW Issues Fact-Finding Report on 2016 Chemical Weapons Incident in Kafr Zeita, Syria
Report concludes industrial chlorine cylinder was used as a weapon The Fact-Finding Mission of the Organisation for the Prohibition of ...
“Resurrector” Drugs Have Potential to Rescue Aged AChE to Fight Nerve Agents
Medical countermeasures known as “resurrectors” may one day be incorporated into a combination antidote for nerve agents and organophosphate pesticides ...
New Reusable Fabric Can Deactivate Both Biological and Chemical Threats
The versatile MOF-based fibrous composite designed here has the potential to serve as protective cloth against both biological and chemical ...
First-in-Class Nerve Agent Antidote Crosses Blood-Brain Barrier to Aid Central Nervous System
Chemical weapon nerve agents like Sarin or Novichok typically function by blocking the transmission of messages from the central nervous ...
Artificial Intelligence Seed Projects Announced at Army’s Chemical Biological Center
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM CBC) is internally funding five new artificial intelligence/machine learning ...
Leidos Awarded DARPA Contract for Personalized Protective Biosystem Against Chemical and Biological Threats
Personalized Protective Biosystem (PPB) program aims to develop technology that reduces the need for burdensome protective equipment while increasing individual ...
Method for Verification of Exposure to Novichok Nerve Agents
Researchers from TNO−CBRN Protection, The Netherlands, present an important method for verification purposes by the Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical ...
UN Official: Impunity in Use of Chemical Weapons Must Not Be Tolerated
The senior United Nations disarmament official urged the Security Council to unite and ensure that the use of chemical weapons ...
DRIVE ReDIRECT: Program Seeks to Develop Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats
The rapid availability of effective medical countermeasures against chemical exposures, from either accidents or chemical weapons attack, is critical in ...
State Department: Reducing Revisionist State Biological and Chemical Weapons Threats
The Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (ISN/CTR) is funding cooperative agreements ...
HDIAC Webinar: Agnostic Compact Demilitarization of Chemical Agents
Join HDIAC Thursday, October 1, from 1200 to 1300 EDT for our next webinar presentation titled “Agnostic Compact Demilitarization of ...
How Putin Borrowed a Page From Assad’s Chemical Weapon Playbook
Germany’s announcement on September 2 that the chemical used to poison Alexei Navalny, the most prominent opposition figure in Russia ...
How Are Victims Surviving Novichok Poisoning?
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is likely to survive a suspected poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok, according to the ...
Chasing the Antidote for Deadly Nerve Agents
In the most comprehensive, structure-based approach to date, a team of scientists may have discovered a new family of antidotes ...
