All chemical weapons articles
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NewsChemical weapons watchdog opens new lab as end nears for deadly munitions
New facility will allow OPCW to address changing nature of threat from chemical weapons
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Research
Plant biomarkers provide evidence of nerve agent attacks
Analytical method detects chemical weapon usage up to three months after exposure by probing plant proteins
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News
German firms raided over dual use chemicals sent to Russia
Companies have reportedly been exporting substances that could be turned into chemical weapons for several years without a permit
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Opinion
Clara Immerwahr – out of her husband’s shadow
The tragic story of the chemist best known as Fritz Haber’s wife might not be as clear cut as many believe, finds Bárbara Pinho
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Research
From nerve agent simulant, to pharma ingredient
Portable microreactor offers a new way to dispose of paraoxon
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News
Chemical weapons watchdog starts work on new chemistry and technology centre
OPCW facility will build up its capacity in areas including analytical chemistry and chemical safety
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News
Princeton fined for export violations involving controlled pathogens
37 violations relate to exporting strains and recombinants of animal pathogen to foreign research facilities
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Review
Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to Putin’s Russia
A comprehensive and timely book covering events from 1931 to 2018
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Review
Project Cleansweep: Beyond the Post Military Landscape of the United Kingdom
A deep-dive into how the UK’s chemical and biochemical weapons impacted – and still impact – the British landscape and its citizens
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News
Chemical weapons watchdog to add Novichok agents to list of closely controlled substances
Move marks first time any class of chemical has been prohibited since the Chemical Weapons Convention came into force over two decades ago
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News
Iupac recognised for promoting peaceful uses of chemistry by chemical weapons body
Chemistry body shares Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons award with two leading experts for work to rid the world of chemical warfare
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Article
Chlorine, nitrogen and the legacies of Fritz Haber
His ammonia process fed the world – but he also pioneered chemical weapons
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Podcast
Cacodyl
It made Robert Bunsen seriously ill, Michael Faraday thought it 'barbaric' to use in battle and even Fritz Haber – the 'father of chemical warfare' – abandoned it after a fatal accident in his lab. This week, Mike Freemantle tells the story of tetramethyldiarsine, otherwise known as cacodyl.
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News
Scientists must be alert to misuse of their work for chemical weapons
Call made to tighten rules defining legitimate use of chemicals and bans on certain new classes of them
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Feature
The great war clean-up
A century after the end of the first world war, the task of disposing of old chemical weapons continues. Michael Freemantle reports
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News
US military wants AI to discover new molecules for it
Defence research agency launches project to optimise unknown molecule discovery to protect against threats
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News
Key suspects identified in Novichok nerve agent poisonings
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons backs UK finding that the same Novichok agent was responsible for Amesbury and Salisbury incidents
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Podcast
Ethyl iodoacetate
A tear gas used by the British army in the first world war, picked, in part, because of our access to seaweed
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Research
Nerve agents destroyed by self-powering enzyme nanobot
Pumping action of tethered organophosphorus acid anhydrase as it breaks up sarin and Soman is used to release antidote
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News
Novichok poisoning breakthrough as original container found
Decontamination efforts continue as source of nerve agent found in victim’s house
