Sentences with phrase «to a nerve agent»

The week wasn't really defined by the Russian nerve agent attack.

«The classic sign of nerve agent exposure,» he recalls.

By this definition, a number of chemical warfare agents and a number of pesticides are included in the family of compounds known as nerve agents.

Within 24 hours they had enough chemicals to make several nerve agents and kill 50,000 people.

There's firmer evidence, he says, that nerve agents mess with the mind.

There are a number of cases where people were exposed to very high doses of nerve agents and survived with aggressive medical interventions.

Instead they have treated the use of a military grade nerve agent in Europe with sarcasm, contempt and defiance.

He filled out an order form for all the chemicals needed to make sarinthe nerve agent used by the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo in its 1994 and 1995 attacksand two of its relatives, soman and GF.

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In this case, the prompt medical attention by the clinician and the emergency services who initially cared for the Skripals will have helped reduce or perhaps eliminate some of the major harm caused by nerve agent exposure.

Today, many are still suffering from Gulf War Illness, a mysterious, multi-symptom disease that experts believe is linked to organophosphate nerve agents sarin and cyclosarin.

Shadow cabinet minsters distance themselves from Corbyn by directly blaming Russia for nerve agent attack

Russian spies were trained to deliver the deadly Novichok nerve agent by applying it to door handles, Britain's top intelligence chief has...

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His agents attacked a Russian defector and his daughter with nerve agent on British...

A report by Reuters May 8 said that OPCW inspectors had found traces of sarin and VX nerve agent at the site in separate inspections in December and January.

The Twittersphere then went wild, with many commentators happily calling for all kinds of dire consequences for British Columbia and accusing B.C. Premier John Horgan, also a New Democrat, of pretty well everything short of squirting deadly nerve agents at former spies and hacking the U.S. election.

And in an odd, and possibly distasteful analogy, he compared lightsabers to Novichok, the deadly nerve agent used to attack Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

This might also have the effect of reducing or eliminating one specific effect of certain nerve agents which is to cause longer term nerve damage, a syndrome call organophosphate induced delayed neuropathy (OPIDN).

This book has been published at a time when the news has been dominated by allegations concerning links in the past between Jeremy Corbyn and the Czech intelligence services and the confrontation with Putin over what appears to be the use of toxic nerve agent against a former Russian spy.

British authorities say the pair have been critically ill since the attack by a Soviet - designed, military - grade nerve agent called Novichok.

A separate plant will destroy other nerve agents by mixing them with a caustic solution of sodium hydroxide.

Sergei Skripal, the former Russian spy and British double agent who was poisoned in England, has been discharged from a Salisbury hospital more than two months after he was exposed to a lethal nerve agent developed by Russia.

Officials from Britain and Russia are still fighting over who exactly poisoned former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with the Soviet - era nerve agent Novichok.

Russian Sergei Skripal is no longer in a critical condition, doctors say, after nerve agent poisoning.

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).

The Organisation for the Protection of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) released analysis on Thursday supporting the conclusion of British military scientists that a Russian - made nerve agent was used on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury last month.

The New York Times is dropping a bombshell, claiming that in 2006, the CIA bought and destroyed nerve agent rockets from an Iraqi seller in an attempt to keep them out of the hands of terrorists.

All of the organophosphate nerve agents degrade in the presence of water, through a mechanism called hydrolysis.

Investigators in protective clothing move a wrapped ambulance from the South Western Ambulance Service station in Harnham, near Salisbury, England, as police and members of the armed forces probe the suspected nerve agent attack on Russian spy double agent Sergei Skripal, Saturday.

In most nerve agent fatalities, death occurs after the agent binds to enough AChE to block signal transmission from the brain's respiratory center to the diaphragm, paralyzing the muscle that's vital for breathing.

The G7 last week condemned what it said was a Russian nerve agent attack in Britain.

The microgravity conditions of the International Space Station (ISS) may hold the key to improving our understanding of how to combat toxic nerve agents such as sarin and VX.

As the U.S., NATO and other allies move against Russia over an alleged nerve agent attack against a former Russian spy in Britain, bipartisan moves are afoot in Congress to strengthen U.S. ties to NATO.

Back in 2013, the Syrian government had agreed to destroy large stockpiles of chemical weapons, yet according to Reuters, the government was found to be in possession of nerve agents since then.

Some militaries made very high grade nerve agents during the Cold War, such as the USSR and the United States.

«Either this was a direct act by the Russian state against our country, or the Russian government lost control of this potentially catastrophically damaging nerve agent and allowed it to get in the hands of others,» May said.

Report into attack on Khan Sheikhun says it is likely nerve agent spread from hole in road where projectile hit

The shell was later determined to be a rare binary chemical weapon, bearing twin containers of chemical precursors intended to mix together when fired to form sarin, a banned nerve agent considered lethal in even modest concentrations.

2013: The college receives grant funding through the Department of Defense's Defense Threat Reduction Agency to develop nerve agent antidotes that can be used by DOD in cases of chemical warfare.

My brother, through his work on disposal of our country's nerve agent stockpile years ago got to know a geologist on the same project, a product of the Colorado School of Mines no less.

In 1992, a former Soviet military chemist blew the lid off the clandestine program, claiming that the hitherto - unknown chemicals are several times more toxic than VX — until then the deadliest known nerve agent.

Allegations of Assad's chlorine use have been frequent during the war although, unlike nerve agents, chlorine did not produce mass casualties as seen last week.

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May talks with Wiltshire Police's Chief Constable Kier Pritchard as she is shown the police tent covering the bench in Salisbury, where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were discovered on March 4, following an apparent nerve agent attack.

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.

The former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a dose of liquid nerve agent as large as 50 - 100 grams, according to the director general of the international chemical weapons watchdog.

Nerve agents only really work quickly when they are inhaled.

If nerve agents - and in particular the so - called Novichok agents - are so deadly, why didn't Sergie and Yulia Skripal die immediately?