US imposes sanctions on Sudan over chemical weapons use http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKxTFp #SudanSanctions #ChemicalWeapons #USForeignPolicy #RapidSupportForces #HumanRights

Ukraine intercepts Russian order to use chemical weapons on frontlines

Russian War Criminal use chemical weapons on frontlines

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/ukraine-intercepts-russian-order-to-use-chemical-1747764873.html

#WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #ChemicalWeapons #army #update #Frontline #war #Russia #WarCriminal #occupiers #defenders
#перемогаYкраїни

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Ukrainian drones hit Russian fiber optic plant in Saransk — Theater, drag shows, an&d art studios; Kharkiv’s cultural scene thrives, even in wartime — Military communications in Moscow Oblast sabotaged amid Russia’s Victory Day celebrations — [video/vlog] How Putin weaponized WW2 and Victory Day, historian explains … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/thursday-may-8-2025/

Painting on paper, 20 x 30 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #analogArt #painting #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanRights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #gasmask #soldier #suffocate #airPollution #chemicalWarfare #chemicalWeapons #genevaConvention #schemes #shadows #silhouettes #jumpingMen #rowingBoat #gorilla #littleBoy #bodyGuard

Painting on paper: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #analogArt #painting #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanRights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #gasmask #soldier #suffocate #airPollution #chemicalWarfare #chemicalWeapons #genevaConvention #nakedWoman #erotic #sexuality #sexSells #harassment #feminism #feminity #sexism #pointerfinger #accusation

Painting on paper, 20 x 30 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #analogArt #painting #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanRights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #gasmask #soldier #suffocate #asphyxia #atmosphere #biosphere #airPollution #toxicGas #breath #breathe #chemicalWarfare #chemicalWeapons #genevaConvention

On 8 April 2017 I was in Bristol photographing a demonstration against the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
#Demonstration #ChemicalWeapons #Syria #Bristol #Photojournalism

Of War and Peace, and Chemistry
Imee Su Martinez and Günter Povoden in ACS #ChemicalHealthAndSafety
"Education on new knowledge and dissemination, hand-in-hand with developing a “chemical conscience” in our chemical practitioners, will minimize the risks and will aid in upholding the Convention."
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.chas.5c00044
#ChemicalDisarmament #ScienceAdvice #ChemicalWeapons #ScienceAndTechnology #ChemicalWeaponsConvention
#ImeeSuMartinez #GunterPovoden #OPCW

Russian Forces Deploy Homemade Chemical Munitions on Drones

https://defensemirror.com/news/39198/Russian_Forces_Deploy_Homemade_Chemical_Munitions_on_Drones

#Russia #Ukraine #ChemicalWeapons #UAV #Drones #MilitaryConflict #GenevaProtocol #WarCrimes #ToxicWeapons #Defense

Russian Forces Deploy Homemade Chemical Munitions on Drones

https://defensemirror.com/news/39198/Russian_Forces_Deploy_Homemade_Chemical_Munitions_on_Drones

#Russia #Ukraine #ChemicalWeapons #UAV #Drones #MilitaryConflict #GenevaProtocol #WarCrimes #ToxicWeapons #Defense

On the new epidsode of the Poisons and Pestilence podcast I was pleasantly surprised to find the guest was Reid Kirby, a #military historian of chemical and biological weapons that I used to correspond with on those matters from time to time. He discusses the history of #ricin toxin (and later toxins), one of the earliest known toxins which was the focus of a significant military development effort in multiple countries. Not only the right wing terrorist's favorite toxin. #biologicalWeapons #chemicalWeapons https://poisonsandpestilence.podbean.com/e/41-bonus-episode-poisoned-weapons-with-reid-kirby/

I do not remember what my awareness was of the #TokyoSubwaySarinAttack attack when it happened thirty years ago.
I learned much more about the attack from #DanKaszeta’s book Toxic and then from #HarukiMurakami’s book Underground.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250320_10/
#ChemicalWeapons #ChemicalTerrorism #Tokyo

Today in Labor History March 17, 1968: The U.S. Army Chemical Corps killed over 6,000 sheep while illegally testing a nerve gas agent at the Dugway Proving Ground in Skull Valley, Utah. A 1998 report, the by Air Force Press was the "first documented admission" from the Army that a nerve agent killed the sheep at Skull Valley. The incident inspired Stephen King's novel “The Stand.”

#utah #chemicalweapons #wmd #WeaponsOfMassDestruction #nerveagent #army #airforce #literary #stephenking #historicalfiction #books #author #writer #horror @bookstadon

#G7 foreign ministers’ statement includes a key sentence on #Syria and #ChemicalWeapons:

“We welcomed the commitment by the Syrian interim government to work with the OPCW in eliminating all remaining chemical weapons.”

https://g7.canada.ca/en/news-and-media/news/joint-statement-of-the-g7-foreign-ministers-meeting-in-charlevoix/

#OPCW #CanadaOPCW #CanadaFP #canpoli

While there are reasons to be more optimistic about the situation in Syria today, the lack of progress on #Russia’s compliance with the #ChemicalWeaponsConvention is troubling.

Read #Canada’s full national statement delivered by Ambassador #HughAdsett at #OPCW’s #EC108: https://www.opcw.org/sites/default/files/documents/EC/108/Canada_EC-108_National%20Statement_ol_%28e%29.pdf #CanPoli #CanadaFP #CanadaOPCW #ChemicalWeapons

📷 : @opcw

"US agencies responsible for preventing the global proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and building security capacity around the world are facing deep cuts, perhaps total abolition, as the Trump administration continues its assault on any and all spending going overseas.

According to a draft working paper provided to WIRED, the Department of Defense is asking all its agencies and services that conduct “security cooperation” programs to consider the impact if the Pentagon were to “realign” its funding. The authors of the paper warn the cuts could hobble the fight against organized crime in South America, impair the battle against the Islamic State, increase the likelihood of a rogue state producing and using chemical weapons, and defund pandemic surveillance measures.

The working paper is in response to a request for information from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, asking agencies to assess the consequences of four levels of staff reduction—25 percent, 50 percent, and 75 percent cuts, or outright abolition."

https://www.wired.com/story/pentagon-cuts-nukes-chemical-weapons-wmd/

#USA #Pentagon #WMD #DoD #ChemicalWeapons #NuclearWeapons

While writing this brief post on substack: https://substack.com/profile/22175895-jim-bodie/note/c-98120744 about World War I and chemical weapons I went down a rabbit hole of looking up different chemical weapons on wikipedia. Very interesting, and scary stuff. Probably got myself on some sort of list now.

#WorldWarI #ChemicalWeapons #NastyStuff

Inside Porton Down: what I learned during three years at the UK’s most secretive chemical weapons laboratory.

My research took me into the heart of the mystery, as I studied its extensive historical archive. The reality was not as I expected.

I came across no aliens, but I did discover records of experiments that ran from the ordinary, through to the bizarre. And sadly, in one isolated case, the lethal.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250220-inside-porton-down-what-i-learned-during-three-years-at-the-uks-most-secretive-chemical-weapons-laboratory?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#PortonDown #ChemicalWeapons #History #Weapons #Longread

Inside Porton Down: what I learned during three years at the UK’s most secretive chemical weapons laboratory.

My research took me into the heart of the mystery, as I studied its extensive historical archive. The reality was not as I expected.

I came across no aliens, but I did discover records of experiments that ran from the ordinary, through to the bizarre. And sadly, in one isolated case, the lethal.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250220-inside-porton-down-what-i-learned-during-three-years-at-the-uks-most-secretive-chemical-weapons-laboratory?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#PortonDown #ChemicalWeapons #History #Weapons #Longread

@krieger22 In 2018 the #ConferenceOfStatesParties passed a decision: Addressing the Threat from Chemical Weapons Use (C‑SS‑4/DEC.3)

Para 20 reads (in part):
Decides that the Director-General, if requested by a State Party investigating a possible chemical weapons use on its territory, can provide technical expertise to identify those who were perpetrators, organisers, sponsors or otherwise involved in the use of chemicals as weapons[…];
#OPCW #ChemicalWeapons
https://www.opcw.org/sites/default/files/documents/CSP/C-SS-4/en/css4dec3_e_.doc.pdf