Chemical warfare (CW) involves using the toxic properties of chemical substances as weapons. This type of warfare is distinct from nuclear warfare, biological...
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weapons. All may be used in warfare and are known by the military acronym NBC (for nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare). Weapons of mass destruction...
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Chemical weapons have been a part of warfare in most societies for centuries. However, their usage has been extremely controversial since the 20th century...
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Weapon of mass destruction (redirect from Nuclear, biological and chemical warfare)
to aerial bombing with chemical explosives during World War II, it has later come to refer to large-scale weaponry of warfare-related technologies, such...
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chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons. The Chemical Warfare Service was established on 28 June 1918, combining activities that...
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Blue Cross (Blaukreuz) is a World War I chemical warfare agent consisting of diphenylchloroarsine (DA, Clark I), diphenylcyanoarsine (CDA, Clark II), ethyldichloroarsine...
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store chemical weapons and used the war fields to test and perfect their chemical warfare prowess. Thus, as the war continued, Iraq's chemical warfare program...
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A chemical weapon agent (CWA), or chemical warfare agent, is a chemical substance whose toxic properties are meant to kill, injure or incapacitate human...
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Chemical warfare is the use of chemical substances in warfare. Chemical Warfare may also refer to: "Chemical Warfare", a song by Dead Kennedys from the...
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overall effectiveness diminished. The widespread use of these agents of chemical warfare, and wartime advances in the composition of high explosives, gave rise...
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Biological warfare is distinct from warfare involving other types of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), including nuclear warfare, chemical warfare, and radiological...
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Psychochemical warfare involves the use of psychopharmacological agents (mind-altering drugs or chemicals) with the intention of incapacitating an adversary...
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1899 and 1907 which banned chemical warfare, among other things, but the U.S. never joined the article which prohibited chemical weapons. In World War I...
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Unethical human experimentation in the United States (redirect from Chemical warfare experiments in the United States)
that are difficult to detect and counter; and new chemical warfare agents and mixtures of chemical weapons and biowarfare agents are being developed ...
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Green Cross (Grünkreuz) is a World War I chemical warfare pulmonary agent consisting of chloropicrin (PS, Aquinite, Klop), phosgene (CG, Collongite) and/or...
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conventional weapons, not chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons. The general purpose of conventional warfare is to weaken or destroy the...
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White Cross (Weiẞkreuz) is a World War I chemical warfare agent consisting of one or more lachrymatory agents: bromoacetone (BA), bromobenzyl cyanide (Camite)...
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Yellow Cross (Gelbkreuz) is a World War I chemical warfare agent usually based on mustard gas (sulfur mustard, HS, Yperite, Lost). The original Gelbkreuz...
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Greg Iles (redirect from Black Cross (chemical warfare))
Greg Iles (born 1960) is an American novelist who lives in Mississippi. He has published seventeen novels and one novella, spanning a variety of genres...
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Chemical Warfare is the second solo studio album by American hip hop producer and recording artist the Alchemist. It was released on July 7, 2009 via ALC...
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Incapacitating agent (redirect from Incapacitating chemical agent)
quantifiable physical or mental impairment. In this sense, any of the chemical warfare agents may incapacitate a victim; however, by the military definition...
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Chemtrail conspiracy theory (redirect from Chemical contrails)
manipulation, human population control, biological or chemical warfare, or testing of biological or chemical agents on a population, and that the trails are...
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Chemical Warfare Brigade is a rock opera created by Marc Brownstein of the trance fusion band Disco Biscuits. It was written during Brownstein's dismissal...
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Israel and weapons of mass destruction (redirect from Chemical weapons in Israel)
country generally reported as having undeclared chemical warfare capabilities, and an offensive biological warfare program. Officially, Israel neither confirms...
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Arsenal, Maryland, and performed duties as the support unit for the Chemical Warfare School. Companies B and C were allotted to the Third Corps Area as...
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human-modified organisms. Chemical warfare is warfare (associated military operations) using the toxic properties of chemical substances to incapacitate...
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on the intelligence of other state parties. Some chemicals which have been used extensively in warfare but have numerous large-scale industrial uses (such...
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Chemical Warfare is the seventh studio album by American rock band Escape the Fate, released on April 16, 2021. The album was produced by the band's lead...
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the United States was "putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin’ frogs gay" as part of a "chemical warfare operation" or "gay bomb" to increase...
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of Bougainville, after which further development passed to the Army Chemical Warfare Service at Schofield Barracks, Territory of Hawaii. There the Army...
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