Sentences with word «tabun»

After the war, Iraq — pressured to own up to the attacks — acknowledged that it had «consumed» 1800 tons of mustard, 600 tons of sarin, and 140 tons of tabun.

Undeterred by charges that it was engaging in a war crime, Iraq repeatedly shelled Iranian forces with tabun, and later with sarin as well as a binary form of the agent, cyclosarin.

Intelligence reports indicate that it has sarin and the nerve agent tabun along with traditional chemicals like mustard gas and hydrogen cyanide.

If the city was destroyed by earthquake, she can assume that conflagration started where fire was already burning — like the inside of an active tabun.

In the event that Syrian rebels topple Assad's government, his stockpiles of sarin, tabun, VX, and mustard gas would be at risk of falling into the hands of terrorist groups.

The tabuns could also resolve the dispute over Solomon's power and reach, says Amotz Agnon, a Hebrew University geophysicist reconstructing the history of Earth's magnetic field.

An olive pit that happened to be cooking in a tabun (an ancient oven) at the moment of a violent destruction (such as an earthquake) was the best sample of all.

To do her work, she studies the chemical makeup of the destruction layers, which sometimes include bits and pieces of the tabuns.

Within a few months, a new incinerator in Iraq will begin burning mustard gas, which makes up most of the country's stock of chemical weapons, and tabun, a nerve agent.

One day in 1986, near the Persian Gulf in southern Iran, the Iraqis shelled his 200 - strong platoon with mustard and tabun.

For the first time ever on a battlefield, nerve agents including sarin and tabun were unleashed by Iraqi forces.