Porton Down’s archive was opened up for a study into the health of the human volunteers in the nerve agent testing programme.

In war, chemical warfare agents are never a pretty sight. Meet VX, an extremely toxic human-made chemical that devastated many, and you've probably never heard about it.

The Joint Chemical Agent Detector (JCAD) M4A1 is a pocket-size, rugged, handheld detector that automatically detects, identifies, and alarms to chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial ...

Chemists in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis have received a $1 million contract from the Defense Threat ...

Chinese scientists claim to have successfully developed a new wireless sensor for detecting chemical warfare agents (CWA). Being passive, the new sensor could significantly improve public safety ...

Chemical warfare, as We know it ... Work on the nature of these agents proceeded slowly from 1920 until 1939, when there was increased interest in poison gas. Since the Second World War ended ...

How much radiation still pollutes Treasure Island? Is the recent scanning the Navy's confession they have failed to remove it ...

The best known of such agents is the anticholinergic chemical ... as is homicidal or suicidal behavior.160 Former JNA chemical warfare officers, both Bosniak and Croatian, have indicated that ...

with an urgent need to destroy Syria’s chemical warfare agent stockpile. The national team was considering incineration of the stockpile in or near Syria as a possible solution. Based on ...

The threat of chemical warfare agents, particularly organophosphorus compounds and other toxic substances, has prompted significant research into effective decontamination strategies. These ...

Chemical and biological warfare isn't new. Even in ancient times, war wasn't all swords and longbows. Some examples: Unrestricted use of chemical agents caused 1 million of the 26 million ...

International watchdogs are unable to fully verify that Syria destroyed its stores of chemical warfare agents and munitions, the United Nations’ disarmament chief told the U.N. Security Council ...