Friday, September 29, 2017

Has Russia REALLY Destroyed Its Chemical Weapons ???

According to this report, Russia has completed the destruction of its chemical weapons:

https://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2017/09/30/opcw-bestaetigt-russland-hat-seine-chemiewaffen-vollstaendig-vernichtet/ [translation required]

But we should not celebrate yet, for at least two reasons:

  1. They did not incinerate all their weapons - they merely broke them down chemically; and
  2. The Novichok series of weapons was not covered by the Chemical Weapons Convention and possibly could be reconstituted from the residues of what they DID "destroy".

You can read about the Novichok chemical weapons here:

https://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2013/05/were-chemical-weapons-used-during-first.html

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novichok_agent

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