A British woman who died after being exposed to the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok was unwittingly caught up in an "illegal and outrageous international assassination attempt," a public inquiry was ...

Member states of the global chemical weapons watchdog agreed Wednesday to update their list of banned substances for the first time by adding the nerve agent used in the attempted assassination last ...

It has been blamed for the almost fatal poisoning of a former Russian agent. Novichok may sound like a villain from a James Bond movie, but it’s actually a chemical weapon. The nerve agent has been ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The attacks range from the exotic — poisoned by drinking polonium-laced tea or touching a deadly nerve agent — to the more mundane of getting shot at close range. Some take a ...

Toxicology tests of blood samples conducted at a German military laboratory showed “proof without a doubt” that the 44-year-old opposition leader was sickened with the Soviet-era chemical. “It is a ...

Sometimes, international institutions are actually effective. Such is the case, on Tuesday, with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The OPCW just proved that Russia has again ...

After decades of work, a U.S. Army chemist turned a recombinant protein into a promising defense that could provide ongoing protection against nerve gas. This article was produced for AMEDD by ...