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Chemical Weapons Convention

International treaty banning chemical weapons

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Jan 22, 2026
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What legal restrictions apply to hexachloroethane under the Chemical Weapons Convention and U.S. domestic law?

is governed by the and by that forbids development, production, stockpiling, transfer or use of chemical weapons and creates criminal, civil and inspection mechanisms to enforce those prohibitions . T...

Jan 17, 2026

What was the US response to the 2013 Ghouta chemical attack in Syria?

The United States publicly and forcefully blamed the Assad regime for the August 21, 2013 Ghouta sarin attack, made that assessment the basis for threatening military action and filing congressional a...