Syria's chemical weapons program began in the 1970s with weapons and training from Egypt and the Soviet Union, with production of chemical weapons in Syria...

Syria's chemical weapon stockpiles and set a destruction deadline of 30 June 2014. Also on 14 September 2013, Syria acceded to the Chemical Weapons Convention...

later, Syria disclosed that it maintained a ricin chemical weapons program, which the Syrian government claims has fallen into the hands of Syrian Opposition...

announces destruction of over 96% of chemical weapons in the world". Tass. Tass. "Syria, Russia, and the Global Chemical Weapons Crisis". Arms Control Association...

remaining stockpiles of chemical weapons. India Iraq Japan Libya Russia Syria United States Albania, as a party of the Chemical Weapons Convention, declared...

three types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear weapons, biological weapons, and chemical weapons. It is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized...

militants have used chemical weapons during the conflict. Human Rights Watch has documented 85 chemical weapons attacks in Syria since 2013, and its sources...

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There have been numerous reports of chemical weapons attacks in the Syrian Civil War, beginning in 2012, and corroborated by national governments, the...

of chemical weapons since the Iran–Iraq War. Inspectors from the United Nations Mission already in Syria to investigate an earlier alleged chemical weapons...

of chemical weapons. Lethal unitary chemical agents and munitions are extremely volatile and they constitute a class of hazardous chemical weapons that...

military acronym for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (warfare or weapons), all of which are considered "weapons of mass destruction" (WMDs)...

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Syrian government of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons. Russia and Iran, the Syrian government's main allies, denied chemical weapons...

into weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons under the apartheid government. South Africa’s nuclear weapons doctrine...

chemical weapons program. Egypt's chemical weapons program is the most developed of its pursuit of developing a weapons of mass destruction program though...

widely considered a weapon of mass destruction. Production and stockpiling of sarin was outlawed as of April 1997 by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993...

new weapons of mass destruction? At the time, nuclear weapons had not been developed. Japan conducted research on biological weapons , and chemical weapons...

to having nuclear weapons, instead repeating over the years that "Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the Middle East"...

India possesses nuclear weapons and previously developed chemical weapons. Although India has not released any official statements about the size of its...

Korea had been sending technicians and material to Syria to assist in its chemical weapons program, including acid-resistant tiles, valves, and thermometers...

The use of toxic chemicals as weapons dates back thousands of years, but the first large-scale use of chemical weapons was during World War I. They were...

Syria to let in chemical weapons experts". NDTV. April 30, 2013. Solomon, John (September 14, 2013). "US, Russia reach deal on Syria chemical weapons"...

evidence to suggest that Myanmar has a chemical weapons program." Burma is a member of nuclear, but not chemical or biological, non-proliferation treaties...

and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction. Annex on Chemicals". United Nations Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. OPCW (2005)...

programs that could lead to internationally proscribed weapons. This included weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical and biological weapons)...

developed and possesses weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and nuclear weapons. The first of China's nuclear weapons tests took place in 1964...

Taiwan pursued a number of weapons of mass destruction programs from 1949 to the late 1980s. The final secret nuclear weapons program was shut down in the late...

chemical warfare capabilities, and an offensive biological warfare program. Officially, Israel neither confirms nor denies possessing nuclear weapons...

chemical weapons against Iranian and Kurdish civilians during the Iran–Iraq War in the 1980s. Saddam pursued an extensive biological weapons program and...