Throughout history there has been continued use of chemicals in warfare. Ancient armies burned painted wood to create smoke screens or to force enemies from hiding places. Two thousand years before Christ, Indian soldiers used smoke screens, incendiary...

Chemical weapons are weapons that achieve their deadly effects not by explosion, heat, or penetration, but by biochemical interaction with the target. Chemical weapons include agents that act on the nervous system, such as sarin and VX, and those that...

In the past five years, and especially since the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, there has been a heightened awareness of all forms of terrorism, including that of chemical terrorism, which often generates more fear amongst the...

Chemical Weapons (CWs) constitute a major but often under appreciated ethical and political challenge for science and technology. The following entry examines this challenge by describing the character of CWs, the history of their use, and efforts of...

Chemical warfare involves using the toxic properties of chemical substances to kill, injure or incapacitate an enemy. Chemical warfare is different from the use of conventional weapons or nuclear weapons because the destructive effects of chemical...

I have no desire to become a statistic in what the Pentagon refers to as "collateral damage." So I have always been careful to stay well out of the line of fire whenever and wherever combatants are combating. Thus far, I have avoided being...

The furor over a chemical-weapons plant in Libya and the downing of two Libyan MIGs should not obscure the urgent need for international cooperation against the manufacture, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons. The threat of chemical warfare is grave and immediate, and there...

Glass vials of toxic agents once used in chemical warfare training may have been taken home as souvenirs from a popular crystal-hunting area, federal officials warned Thursday.Authorities have found 130 of the vials at the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge, as well as incendiary devices...

Rudy Giuliani's first web ad, attacking Hillary Clinton for shifting her position on the war and refusing to speak out against MoveOn.org for it's 'Petraeus or Betray Us' ad, is up on his campaign web site. Here's the script for "She Changed." NARRATOR: "In...