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The birthday of Alexei Navalny was marked on Wednesday by his supporters more than a year after the Russian dissident's death ...
The Novichok poisonings in Salisbury were a “wake-up call” to the threat from Vladimir Putin’s Russia of a chemical or ...
All nerve agent munitions -- those containing GB and those containing VX -- have been safely processed." CMA personnel and contractors have destroyed the VX nerve agent munitions at six disposal ...
All nerve agent munitions-those containing GB (sarin) and those containing VX-have been safely processed." CMA personnel and contractors have destroyed the VX nerve agent munitions at five other ...
Here’s some background information about sarin, a man-made nerve agent developed for chemical warfare. Facts Sarin is a liquid that is clear, colorless, tasteless and odorless. Sarin is an extremely ...
Each 155 mm munition can carry either 6 pounds of VX or 11.7 pounds of a mustard agent. The facility has already disposed of its 8-inch projectiles containing GB nerve agent, and it began ...
The lead counsel for a public inquiry into the 2018 death of a British woman poisoned by a Soviet-developed nerve agent said Monday that there was enough poison in the vial she unwittingly opened ...
four months after a failed assassination attempt on former Russian double agent Sergei Skripol in the same town. The judge-led inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, 44, will run Monday through ...
Sergei and Yulia Skripal, a former Russian double agent and his daughter who survived being poisoned with nerve agent in 2018, will not testify at an inquiry into the related death of a British ...
The milestone was reached on Friday at the Bluegrass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Kentucky. A final rocket was drained of sarin nerve agent, and that agent was then chemically ...
Sarin is an extremely volatile nerve agent because of its ability to change ... Sarin’s designation by NATO is GB. People are exposed to sarin through skin contact, eye contact or by breathing ...