Chemical Weapons Convention
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The Chemical Weapons Convention, officially the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, is an arms control treat
Headquarters in The Hague
Sarin
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Sarin is an extremely toxic organophosphorus compound that has been often used as a chemical weapon due to its extreme potency as a nerve agent.
Chemical Weapons Convention
…military had destroyed almost 5,000 old chemical weapons in open-air detonations since 2004. These weapons, produced before the 1991 Gulf War, contained sarin and mustard agents but were so badly corroded that they could not have been used as originally intended. When Iraq joined the CWC in 2009, it declared…
Rabbit used to check for leaks at former sarin production plant (Rocky Mountain Arsenal), 1970
U.S. Honest John missile warhead cutaway, showing M134 Sarin bomblets (c. 1960)