Inside the UK’s most secretive chemical weapons laboratory
What really happened at the top secret laboratory is shrouded in mystery. So what is the truth? Thomas Keegan writes ...
Defect-engineered metal-organic frameworks offer rapid detection of nerve agents
Nerve agents are highly toxic chemical warfare agents that inhibit acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in the nervous system, causing severe symptoms such as seizures and respiratory failure. Timely detection ...
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Inside Porton Down: what I learned during three years at the UK’s most secretive chemical weapons laboratory
One later nerve agent tested in the 1960s was VX, then a scarily potent new nerve agent. According to the Centers for Disease Control in the US, VX is one of the most toxic of the known chemical ...
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Japan victims voice fears 30 years after sarin subway attack
Three decades since Shizue Takahashi's husband and a dozen others were killed with a nerve agent on Tokyo's subway, she fears ...
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Erosion of the Norm of Using Chemical Weapons
The global norm against chemical weapons, bolstered by international disarmament initiatives and the Chemical Weapons ...
The secret Russian city that produced some of the world's most dangerous weapons
During the Soviet era, the city was off-limits to foreign visitors, and much of what happened there remained classified.
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The dark side of UK's top secret defence lab: How airman died after being exposed to deadly nerve agent and pigs have been BLOWN UP in experiments at Porton Down
Other servicemen were exposed to mustard gas, CS gas (commonly known as tear gas), the nerve agent VX and hallucinogens such as the illegal drug LSD. North Korean agents used VX in 2017 to ...
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With chemical weapons destroyed, hundreds of layoffs begin at Army depot in Madison Co.
Thousands of drained rocket warheads that once held GB and VX nerve agents still have to be destroyed. York said about 72% of more than 51,000 now-empty warheads that previously contained GB nerve ...
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Japan victims voice fears 30 years after sarin subway attack
Two months after the sarin attack, Asahara was arrested and later convicted of 13 major crimes including the train strike and another using VX nerve agent. Survivors of the subway attack say they ...