Chemical Weapons Convention
About the Chemical Weapons Convention
Bans an entire weapon class, development, production, stockpiling, use of chemical weapons, with the OPCW inspection and destruction regime. US Russia declared and destroyed massive stocks, Libya Syria Iraq joined and disarmed under pressure. Nobel Peace Prize OPCW 2013. Syrian sarin and chlorine attacks tested enforcement, attribution mechanisms. Novichok attacks, Skripal, Navalny, stretched the CWC definition to new agents.
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