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RCMP carry out raid in Quebec in connection with poison-laced letter sent to White House | CBC News https://t.co/R0W0YUUuBa
Woman arrested at US-Canada border for poison mailed to White House - BBC News https://t.co/CRQ3NjUOy7
A package containing ricin was intercepted in the White House mail, a U.S. official familiar with the matter said https://t.co/dST5wRpC4w
🔴#OPCW Provides Technical Assistance to Germany Regarding Allegations of Chemical Weapons Use Against Alexei Navalny https://t.co/BjUkGTlmke #Navalny
This mornings press release now also in English. German government confirms @OPCW took their own samples from Mr #Navalny . Like in the #Skripal case there will most likely be a briefing and report to all Member States after analysis and a publich summary. https://t.co/QUOj2YQezF
Associate Professor Stefano Costanzi (@s_costanzi), was quoted, as a chemist and nonproliferation analyst, in the story "How German military scientists likely identified the nerve agent used to attack Alexei Navalny," published in @ScienceMagazine. https://t.co/IvOWym6jTd
Associate Professor Stefano Costanzi (@s_costanzi), was quoted, as a chemist and nonproliferation analyst, in the story "How German military scientists likely identified the nerve agent used to attack Alexei Navalny," published in @ScienceMagazine. https://t.co/DiHkl2av5I
@aumedia @au_cas @ScienceMagazine Glad to contribute to this @ScienceMagazine story. Even happier to hear that Navalny is recovering.
How German military scientists likely identified the nerve agent used to attack Alexei Navalny @ScienceMagazine
How German military scientists likely identified the nerve agent used to attack Alexei Navalny
Insights gleaned from 2018 poisoning of a Russian spy in the United Kingdom may have helped finger a Novichok
www.sciencemag.org
Russia's Navalny out of coma after poisoning - BBC News
Russia's Navalny out of coma after poisoning
The condition of leading Putin critic Alexei Navalny has improved, German doctors treating him say.
www.bbc.com
🔴 Statement from the OPCW Director-General on Allegations of Chemical Weapons Use Against Alexei Navalny #OPCW #Navalny
Statement from the OPCW Director-General on Allegations of Chemical Weapons Use Against Alexei Navalny
www.opcw.org
Germany announced that it will contact the @OPCW re: the poisoning of #Navalny with a #Novichok agent, which is now firmly within the CWC's verification system. @s_costanzi & @gregkoblentz discussed Novichoks in the CWC context for @TheNonproReview: https://t.co/0Jar0ml82e
@gregkoblentz @OPCW @TheNonproReview @ArmsControlNow And to see the structures of the Novichok agents recently added to CWC Schedule 1, check out our annotated tables. The agent reportedly used for the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal (A-234) is the one listed as CWC 1A14 Example 3.
A historical event: chemicals added to CWC Schedule 1
On November 27, 2019, the 24th Conference of State Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), convened in the Hague, approved two proposals for...
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@gregkoblentz @OPCW @TheNonproReview @ArmsControlNow And to see the structures of the Novichok agents recently added to CWC Schedule 1, check out our annotated tables. The agent reportedly used for the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal (A-234) is the one listed as CWC 1A14 Example 3.
A historical event: chemicals added to CWC Schedule 1
On November 27, 2019, the 24th Conference of State Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), convened in the Hague, approved two proposals for...
costanziresearch.com
For background on Novichoks and how this newest CW threat has been addressed by the @OPCW, check out these articles by @s_costanzi and I:
@TheNonproReview:
@ArmsControlNow: https://t.co/tC4gg1m4ic https://t.co/prmGF9AdpY
Controlling Novichoks after Salisbury: revising the Chemical Weapons Convention schedules
(2019). Controlling Novichoks after Salisbury: revising the Chemical Weapons Convention schedules. The Nonproliferation Review: Vol. 26, Special Secti...
www.tandfonline.com
Alexei Navalny poisoned with Novichok, says German government
Alexei Navalny novichok finding prompts calls for answers from Moscow
Angela Merkel says poisoning was attempted murder and White House calls it ‘reprehensible’
www.theguardian.com
@UK_OPCW Thank you - and for all your expertise and commitment to helping the multilateral system deliver on one of its key objectives. Restoring the taboo on CW use is a vital task. It’s been a joy to work with you
@NYTimesAtWar I briefly touch upon this topic here:
Chemical Warfare Agents
This is the pre-print manuscript of an article published in the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. The published version of the article ...
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@NYTimesAtWar Absolutely. An unexpected, positive consequence of the Bari disaster was the discovery of the anti-cancer properties of mustards. Although, the John Harvey was carrying sulfur mustard, nitrogen mustards were later developed as chemotherapy agents.
Here's the setup to Jennet Conant's new book: An American merchant ship carrying a top-secret shipment of nitrogen mustard gas shells slips into the port city of Bari mere months after Italy’s surrender to the Allied forces. Disaster ensues.
War â What Is It Good For? Chemotherapy, Apparently
In ”The Great Secret,” Jennet Conant argues that the 1943 bombing of a ship full of mustard gas helped spur research into cancer treatment...
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