Countries convene to update chemical weapons prohibitions

Chemical and Engineering News  November 16, 2018
According to researchers in the UK, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) must decide how best to evolve to prevent the reemergence of chemical weapons in a period of rapid scientific change and unstable international security. Among the key issues facing OPCW going forward are the development and use of riot-control agents, such as tear gas, and delivery systems for such agents. The nature of law-enforcement activities allowed under the treaty must be clarified. They also advocate for strengthening OPCW’s Technical Secretariat to better monitor science and technology advances and forecast how those advances might affect chemical weapons development and use…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE