Plus Assad's proven and acknowledge chemical and
nerve agent program, where he surrender stockpiles of weapons, but did not show any verifiable move to dismantle the production capabilities.
Not exact matches
The intended payload for North Korea's ICBM
program is a nuclear warhead (although chemical weapons like VX
nerve agent, which the nation allegedly possesses and has used, are another option).
MOSCOW (Sputnik)-- The use of 50 - 100 grams of A234
nerve agent in UK's Salisbury would have killed the city, which calls into question the use of this substance against former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, Leonid Rink, one of the developers of chemical weapons
program, dubbed Novichok in the West, told Sputnik.
Also, Russian officials claim that while the Russian chemical weapons
program and everything connected to it had been verifiably destroyed under foreign supervision, other countries like the UK, Slovakia, Sweden and the Czech Republic have carried out «intense research» on
nerve agents like «Novichok» until today and are likely to possess samples of these substances (Which would be of interest if «Novichok» was indeed the poison used in the attack).
More clarity on the long - term effects of
nerve agents will come from a U.S. National Toxicology
Program report on sarin.