The FINANCIAL — Two Dutch intelligence agencies said on Friday that Russia is increasing its use of prohibited chemical weapons in Ukraine, including the World War I-era poison gas chloropicrin. The ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Two Dutch intelligence agencies said on Friday that Russia is increasing its use of prohibited chemical weapons in Ukraine, including the World War I-era poison gas ...

Chemical warfare has left a dark stain on human history, from the gas-filled trenches of World War I to the recent battlefields of Syria and Ukraine. This video explores how chemical weapons work, ...

Tear gas tends to be classified as a “chemical irritant,” and the term itself, per the Centers for Disease Control, is often used interchangeably to refer to a variety of substances, including pepper ...

More than 100 years after the end of World War I, WTOP has learned D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is seeking funding from the Trump administration to investigate and clean up any remaining chemical ...

German troops make their way through a cloud of smoke or gas during a gas training drill, circa 1916. Henry Guttmann/Hulton Archive via Getty Images Chemical warfare is one of the most devastating ...

A Johns Hopkins-led research alliance across the country seeks to understand and mitigate the world's most lethal weapons ...

"The story of how a chemical weapon went from the battlefield to the streets. One hundred years ago, French troops fired tear gas grenades into German trenches. Designed to force people out from ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has uncovered what could be a fourth major disposal area for World War I-era munitions and chemical weapons in the nation's capital. Project manager Dan ...

The flood of angry —and justified— reactions to this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, María Corina Machado, reveals less about the committee’s decision ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, ALABAMA -- The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity (CMA) stood up a new chemical activity in January to support cleanup of recovered chemical weapons at U.S. Army Garrison-Redstone ...