All Defence and military articles – Page 4
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News
Turkish crackdown takes toll on academic output
Analysis finds publications have declined after 8000 academics were fired in the wake of last year’s coup
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News
US to clean-up race test chemical weapon relics on Panama island
Legacy mustard gas weapons from second world war will be disposed of in September
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News
EU imposes sanctions on Syrian chemical weapon scientists
Measures restrict movement and freeze assets of 16 Syrian scientists and military officials, following chemical attacks
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Review
The imagineers of war
A history of the Pentagon’s infamous Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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Review
Toxic exposures: mustard gas and the health consequences of world war II in the United States
An insight into the murky world of chemical warfare
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Business
Russia invests in speciality chemicals industry
Government will pump cash into sector to develop domestic industry, counteract effects of sanctions, and meet demand from military
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News
Chemical agent used in Syria attack still unidentified
Initial observations suggest sarin was used by government forces, but further investigation is needed
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Trump’s election sparks anxiety among scientists
Research community fears a Trump presidency will harm US science, but the biotech and pharma industry are more upbeat
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Podcast
Book Club – Grunt: the curious science of humans at war
The non-weapon technologies of war, from penis transplants to maggot therapy
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News
Failed coup leads to crackdown on academics
More than 1500 deans have been dismissed from universities amid claims of a settling of political scores
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Israeli chemists urge government to ban chemical weapons
Open letter presses prime minister to ‘remove the curse of chemical weapons from the face of the Earth
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Hollywood may have shaped Iraq war chemical weapons intel
Claim that nerve agents were stored in glass beads bears resemblance to action film
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News
Toxic legacy of Agent Orange lives on in Vietnam
Scientists are struggling to clean up dioxin-contaminated soil that has been linked to devastating illnesses among thousands of people
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Research
Caging chemical weapons
Supramolecular cubes trap and flag nerve agents using the hydrophobic effect
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News
Turkish academics face repression after criticising government
Protests against Turkey’s military actions in Kurdish area spark arrests and harassment
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News
Litvinenko inquiry unveils scientific sleuths at heart of investigation
Anonymous forensic investigators and chemists tracked trail left by dissident’s killers