All Defence and military articles
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Business16 dead in US munitions factory explosion
Plant levelled by blast, whose cause remains under investigation
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OpinionCritical metals supply strained
Conflict - both military and political - is having profound effects on supplies of a wide range of materials
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BusinessMilitary demand strains metal supply chains
Conflict and trade disputes have disrupted global supplies of specialist metals like hafnium, antimony and rare earths
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NewsConcerns raised about PFAS leaking from three UK military bases
Sites could pose a threat to drinking water supplies and sensitive freshwater environments
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NewsBill to ban all Chinese nationals from receiving US student visas causes alarm
Legislation’s sponsor claims it will prevent espionage, but there are warnings it will harm US competitiveness
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NewsLast year a top Syrian chemist was murdered. The problem is he never existed
Fake news about assassinated scientists was ‘disturbing and distressing’ for targets
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ResearchThe toxic legacy of Agent Blue
Agent Orange’s history in Vietnam is well known but one scientist is trying to raise the profile of another pesticide used during the war
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NewsChina bans sale of three critical elements and ‘superhard materials’ to the US
Export bans on gallium, germanium and antimony could hit semiconductor and weapons manufacturers hard
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NewsOPCW confirms Russia likely used riot control agent CS gas in Ukraine
Chemical weapons watchdog’s lab analysis backs up claims of tear gas use
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OpinionPublic inquiry into Novichok poisonings hopes to shed light on murky events
The investigation into the Amesbury poisonings let the public see the importance of forensic chemistry
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NewsUK sanctions Russian troops for deploying chemical weapons in Ukraine
Government accuses Russian forces of deploying riot agents
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NewsExplainer: what is tear gas?
Accusations of the use of tear gas as a weapon of war in Ukraine have put these agents in the spotlight once more
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NewsClaims of tear gas use against Ukrainian troops ‘insufficiently substantiated’
Chemical weapons watchdog says more evidence is needed on whether Russia violated convention
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NewsTwo Canadian scientists were fired in 2021 for passing information to China
Details emerge in government documents leading to security being tightened at top level biosafety lab following breach
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NewsChemical weapons watchdog concludes Islamic State used mustard gas in 2015 attack in Syria
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons concludes six artillery shells contained the chemical agent
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NewsThe story of how the most successful US–Russia scientific collaboration collapsed
Five jointly discovered superheavy elements completed the eighth row of the periodic but then Russian revanchism reared its head
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OpinionThe end of chemical warfare
With a final push we might see these terrible weapons disappear from the world in our lifetime
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NewsWorld’s declared stockpiles of chemical weapons destroyed as US finishes the job
Chemical weapons watchdog confirms that historic milestone has been passed towards ending threat of chemical warfare
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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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NewsUS researcher entanglements continue post-China Initiative as worries over IP theft linger
National Science Foundation official reveals new, questionable contract between US researcher and Chinese government-linked entity