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Chemical weaponsToxic industrial chemicals
Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
International security environment
Armed conflict
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© The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the AAAS for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Science in Volume 362 on 16 Nov 2018, DOI: 10.1126/science.aav5129.Peer-Reviewed
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Stark illustrations of the dangers from chemical weapons can be seen in attacks using toxic industrial chemicals and sarin against civilians and combatants in Syria and toxic industrial chemicals in Iraq, as well as more targeted assassination operations in Malaysia and the United Kingdom, employing VX and novichok nerve agents, respectively. Concerns about such malign applications of chemical technology are exacerbated by the unstable international security environment and the changing nature of armed conflict, “where borderlines between war, civil war, large-scale violations of human rights, revolutions and uprisings, insurgencies and terrorism as well as organized crime are blurred” (1). It is thus essential that the global community regularly review the nature and implications of developments in chemistry, and its convergence with the life and associated sciences, and establish appropriate measures to prevent their misuse. With the parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) convening a Review Conference to address such issues beginning 21 November 2018, we highlight important scientific aspects (2)Version
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Crowley M, Shang L and Dando M (2018) Preventing chemical weapons as sciences converge. Science. 362(6416): 753-755.Link to Version of Record
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav5129Type
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav5129