Today chemical weapons pose a more challenging and dangerous threat than even nuclear ones. Recent events in the UK’s Salisbury and Syrian city of Duma make one reassess the problem of chemical weapons
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Disarmament diplomacy in action: Russian and US approaches for strengthening WMD regimes
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Certainly, the existing regimes for non-proliferation or prohibition of WMD differ from each other. While the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and the NPT have institutionalized specialized agencies and organizations mandated to verify its implementation by States Parties on an international level (the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) ...
... somewhat ambiguous, since nobody can define what ‘large numbers’ or ‘large-scale damage’ exactly mean. Among various WMDs, nuclear weapons have always received the bulk of public attention and the highest political profile. They are widely believed ... ... not only to individual countries and societies, but also to the human species itself and to the life on the Earth at large.
Chemical weapons (CWs) are an elder brother to nuclear weapons. Great powers started working on the former already in the XIX ...