CounterPunch The U.S. and its allies have long been complicit in the manufacturing and use of biological and chemical weapons, yet has targeted other countries for alleged possession and use of these same weapons. This partial chronology is intended as a starting ...
New York Times A spokesman for Russia's Foreign Ministry, Aleksandr K. Lukashevich, said that those who advocated an armed response to any chemical weapons attack — without citing the United States or other countries — were prejudging the results of the United ...
Modesto Bee Blue Grass Army Depot will be the last of nine sites to destroy its chemical weapons. The task is harder there because, unlike other sites, the chemicals are loaded in explosive M55 rockets and corroding projectiles that were meant to be shot out of ... and more »
Popular Science "Right now, we can do a pretty good job of separating, for example, Scotch whiskies from bourbons and other American whiskeys and also Canadian and Iri...
Treehugger The Environmental Protection Agency warns: "Cutting or trimming the foam as it hardens (tack-free phase) may generate dust that may contain unreacted isocyanates and other chemicals ." This is also a concern during the process of removing foam.
Washington Post (blog) Why are chemical weapons considered worse than other types of weapons? The taboo against chemical weapons is more than a century old. “The primary idea is that they are indiscriminate and an inherent threat to civilian populations,” explained historian ...
PolicyMic Vietnam estimates that as a result of the decade-long chemical attack, 400,000 people were killed or maimed, 500,000 babies have been born with birth defects, and 2 million have suffered from cancer or other illnesses. In 2012, the Red Cross estimated ... and more »
Yale Environment 360 Using zebrafish, Tanguay and other scientists are zeroing in on why certain chemical components of crude oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez in 1989 continue to adversely affect fish survival in Alaska's Prince William Sound. With zebrafish, they also are ...
The Hill (blog) The “ chemicals of concern” rule, submitted to the White House three years ago, would have added bisphenol A (BPA) and a host of other chemicals to th...
Washington Post (blog) (Carolyn Kaster/AP) “People say, 'Well, he killed 100,000 people. What's the difference with this 1,400?' With this 1,400, he crossed a line with using chemical weapons. President Obama did not draw the red line. Humanity drew it decades ago, 170-some ...
