On March 13, 1968, 320 gallons of VX nerve agent spilled into Skull Valley Utah. The following day, over 6,000 sheep were dead, exposing the Military's use of illegal chemical weapons.

It goes back far enough that militaries have developed weapons intended to overwhelm enemies and shift the balance of power on the battlefield.

Somewhere in the computer servers of the OPCW, the international agency responsible for chemical weapons disarmament, there is a model, an equation, essentially, that simulates a chemical weapon ...

Until 1970, the US dumped an estimated 17,000 tons of unspent chemical weapons from World War I and II off the coast of the ...

Greece called for UN unity on Syria’s chemical weapons file and reaffirmed support for protecting women’s rights in Afghanistan.

Morocco was elected by acclamation on Friday to the presidency of the Executive Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), representing the African Group for a ...

AMSTERDAM, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The global chemical weapons watchdog on Friday said it had been unable to determine whether banned toxic agents had been used in attacks on two Syrian towns in 2016 and ...

The United Nations welcomed Syria’s continued cooperation with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new report from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) raises concerns about Iran's opaque chemical weapons program, ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The world's chemical weapons watchdog opened an investigation on Sunday into attacks in the besieged, rebel-held Syrian region of eastern Ghouta to determine whether banned ...

Update at 12:32 p.m.: A new paragraph — second-to-last — was added to reflect sporadic uses of chemical weapons after World War I. The use of chemicals weapons last week in Syria, if proved, would put ...

With Western leaders weighing whether to intervene in the Syrian war with a Libya-style bombing campaign or by arming the Syrian rebels with heavy weaponry, it would seem logical that President Bashar ...