Similarly, chemical weapons, first used on a mass scale during World War I, represented a devastating new chapter in the politics of death. However, their capacity for indiscriminate destruction ...

The Nobel Peace Prize 2013 was awarded to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons "for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons". OPCW's Director-General Ahmet ...

Syria’s foreign minister has pledged to destroy any remaining chemical weapons in his country as he paid a historic visit to the headquarters of the global chemical weapons watchdog.

Some deadly landmarks: Lessons learned: The horror of chemical weapons left the world reeling. The Geneva Convention made an attempt to severely limit their future use in warfare. Between the two ...

May 13. /TASS/. The US government is ready to complete the process of destroying its chemical weapons by this fall, US President Biden said in his statement ahead of the Fifth Review Conference of ...