Posted on Nov 30, 2020
Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare | United Nations
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NOV 30, 2020
On this Remembrance Day (every 30 NOV), we remember and honor all victims of chemical warfare. The use of chemical weapons has caused some of the most horrific deaths and injuries in modern history. The United States supports the complete ban on the production and use of chemical weapons and full implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention. The United States also supports the work of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and congratulates the OPCW for the overwhelming support it received during this week’s budget vote. As a result of an intense effort by the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands, this week the Conference of the States Parties to the Convention adopted a decision adding the Novichok class nerve agent to the Convention’s Schedule of Chemicals. This will make a deadly class of chemicals, like those used in the Salisbury assassination attempt in the United Kingdom, subject to strict verification by the OPCW.
https://www.state.gov/the-international-day-of-remembrance-for-the-victims-of-chemical-warfare/
On this Remembrance Day (every 30 NOV), we remember and honor all victims of chemical warfare. The use of chemical weapons has caused some of the most horrific deaths and injuries in modern history. The United States supports the complete ban on the production and use of chemical weapons and full implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention. The United States also supports the work of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and congratulates the OPCW for the overwhelming support it received during this week’s budget vote. As a result of an intense effort by the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands, this week the Conference of the States Parties to the Convention adopted a decision adding the Novichok class nerve agent to the Convention’s Schedule of Chemicals. This will make a deadly class of chemicals, like those used in the Salisbury assassination attempt in the United Kingdom, subject to strict verification by the OPCW.
https://www.state.gov/the-international-day-of-remembrance-for-the-victims-of-chemical-warfare/
Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare | United Nations
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As a SAC crewmember I really didn't know much about chemical weapons. We had annual training and had to spend hours in the cockpit in chem suits every couple of years but that was about it. It wasn't until I was in NBC at a joint command that I learned about the horrors of these weapons.
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Sometimes things are just briefed in terms of a payload, I'm assuming. Poor SOBs in DS were doing MOPP IV boogie a lot. I got to see the Road of Death after smoke cleared. JSTARS had them dialed in until game over. A hometown older boy retired as MG over that bunch out of GA. Lived across our back fence in 60s.
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I know CS will clear the sinuses. Habaneros will bring tears. That's extent of it for me.
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