Chemical Weapons
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The article presents a comprehensive and cross-cutting review of key marine waste issues, taking into account: sources, fate, risks, transport pathways, threats, legislation, current challenges, and knowledge gaps. The growing amount of... more
The aim of the article is to examine the legal position presented by the UK after the 2018 airstrikes in Syria, both from the perspective of the legality of humanitarian intervention as well as the criteria employed with regard to a... more
This article examines the issue of riot control agents as it relates to the subject of chemical weapons arms control at the international level and, more specifically, implications for the United States. The article examines how the issue... more
The reasons for the use of chemical weapons remain an understudied concept in international relations despite their continual use in conflicts. By comparing chemical weapon use by the regimes of four Arab states-Egypt, Iraq, Libya, and... more
Neither non-lethal violence nor psychochemical weapons are new concepts. History provides examples of attempts to use these both to limit the scope of war and to turn mind-altering compounds into weapons. One of these substances has been... more
Was Dr David Kelly lured to his death and left positioned in the Oxfordshire woods seventeen years ago – like a trusting child by a paedophile? Many believe so. “They didn’t have to kill him!” (Senior UK intelligence operative)2. The... more
The limitation, reduction, prohibition or elimination of specific types of weapons, particularly nuclear weapons is, and will continue to be, one of the most important challenges that the international community should face in the 21th... more
The Syrian government has made extensive use of improvised munitions delivering a chemical payload over the course of the civil war, with incidents involving re-purposed toxic industrial chemicals (TIC) substantially outnumbering those... more
Selected by the Defense Intelligence Agency, FBI, Naval War College Library, UK Defence Staff College, and other official defense/intelligence collections including Georgetown University, which included EEIS in its Selected Resources... more
Scientists from the old Soviet weapons of mass destruction programs are the new persecuted dissidents in 'democratic' Russia of 1993.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) recently confirmed that laboratory tests of samples taken following Daesh attacks on Kurdish forces southwest of Erbil in August 2015 tested positive for sulphur mustard.... more
A closer look at the arguments of Eliot Higgins against Tulsi2020 article regarding chemical weapons use in Syria
AUGUST 28, 2013 Washington — An attack on Syria may indeed spread the war -- and risks escalation and backlash -- but larger interests are at stake. Like it or not, the US is the world's sheriff in these matters. A deeply flawed... more
A critical review of Eliot Higgins (Bellingcat)'s article against allegations of the Tulsi2020 website on chemical weapons deployments in Syria.
Part 2 deals with the alleged chlorine attack on Douma on April 7, 2018.
Part 2 deals with the alleged chlorine attack on Douma on April 7, 2018.
Overlapping crisis in Syria shed a large number of casualties caused by civil war and terrorism. Since 2013, over 1 million Syrians landed in Lebanon, Jordan and several European countries as refugees as the consequence of mass violence... more
Traditionally, chemical attacks are seen as military bombs or home-brewed releases. Some of the original chemical attacks in WWI used industrial gasses such as phosgene. Similarly, industrial sites can be used to create a chemical attack,... more
This chapter will reflect on the experiences of Mr. Yakup Satar, one of the last known veterans of the First World War (1914-1918) and Turkish War of National Liberation (1919-1922). The study is based on two interviews that I conducted... more
Since the Third Review Conference (8–19 April 2013), the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the body overseeing the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), has had to confront growing evidence of... more
World War I has been called the «The Chemist's War»; not only for the extend of the use of the chemical weapons in the war, but also for the complicity of the scientific and engineering efforts to create and select the most appropriate... more
Weapon ban activism typically focuses on the excessive destructiveness of the weapon under scrutiny, and highlights its departure from the commitment to “humane warfare”—a concept enshrined in the Geneva Conventions. However, a variety of... more
The Arctic seas are the world's biggest dumping ground for sea-disposed nuclear waste and have served among the primary disposal sites for chemical warfare agents. Despite of scientific uncertainty, the Arctic Council has noted that this... more
The current shape of the Syrian crisis derives from three key developments witnessed in 2013. Two of them directly strengthened the Assad regime after a succession of military setbacks: first, the growing in- volvement of foreign Shia... more
The Executive Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) expressed “grave concern” March 10 about the apparent use of VX nerve agent to assassinate Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half brother of North Korea’s... more
The subject of this discussion are the almost forgotten victims of chemical weapons on the Eastern Front of World War I. Source data related to military operations, in particular to the German gas attacks in the region of the Bzura and... more
The paper aims to assist the international community and international organizations (IOs), such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), to better prepare for... more