Twelve years ago, Russian security forces employed a secret incapacitating chemical agent (ICA) weapon believed to affect the central nervous system in their attempt to save 900 hostages held in a ...

A new report out today (Thursday 23 October), authored by researchers in our Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies, has highlighted how contemporary chemical and life science ...

Two recent pieces in Nature, an opinion and an editorial, discuss how non-lethal neuroactive chemical agents have been used by military forces (e.g. fentanyl-induced unconsciousness) and speculate ...

When survivors of the 2002 theater siege in Moscow — in which Russian police used a gas widely believed to be a fentanyl derivative to flush out terrorists — brought claims before the European Court ...

The expert meeting addressed further operational, medical, legal and policy questions associated with the use of these toxic chemicals as weapons for law enforcement. It brought together 31 government ...

On October 26 2002, to end a three-day siege on a theatre in Moscow by Chechen terrorists, Russian security forces used a secret incapacitating chemical agent (ICA) weapon believed to affect the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If recent media reports have left an impression that Syrian President Bashar Assad might already have used chemical weapons ...

As researchers discover more agents that alter mental states, the Chemical Weapons Convention needs modification to help ensure that the life sciences are not used for hostile purposes, says Malcolm ...