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International organization based in The Hague
The Nobel Peace Prize has a long history of serving not only as reward for completed peacemaking but also as a symbolic lever meant to amplify influence, protect dissidents, or spotlight nascent cause...
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...
The materials provided do not identify any treaty explicitly called the “VX treaty,” nor list which states have signed but not ratified such a treaty; available sources explain the legal difference be...
The United Kingdom was directly involved in the discovery, development and research of several major nerve agents in the mid-20th century — most notably the V‑series agent VX, which was invented in Br...
Porton Down publicly stated that its scientists identified the Salisbury toxicant as a Novichok‑type, military‑grade nerve agent, but also said they had not been able to determine the precise source o...
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...
Reports alleging "gas attacks" use "they" to mean a range of actors—state forces, non-state militant groups, cults and sometimes unidentified perpetrators—while the identified victims are most often p...