• the UK Government Decontamination Service was set up in 2005 after increased threats of terrorism to help the United Kingdom resist and recover from biological, chemical and nuclear incidents?
• the MC-1 bomb was the first non-clustered U.S. chemical weapon?
• Operation Steel Box moved 100,000 American chemical weapons from Clausen, West Germany, to Johnston Atoll in the South Pacific Ocean?

Facts on topics related to Chemical weapon

Chemical Weapons Convention

• Executive Order 13128 led to U.S. State Department rules outlining criminal penalties for violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention?

Chemical warfare

• during the interwar period chief of the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service Amos Fries viewed chemical disarmament as a Communist plot?
• in 1953, the U.S. Army used human subjects to test decontamination methods for chemical and biological agents as part of Operation Top Hat?
• the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (pictured) destroyed more than 400,000 American chemical munitions from 1990 to 2000?

Nerve agent

• in 1967, the M139 bomblet (interior pictured) was tested in Hawaii using live Sarin nerve agent?
• the M34 cluster bomb was the first major U.S. chemical weapon designed to deliver sarin nerve agent?
• the tendency of the Weteye bomb's aluminum casing and liquid nerve agent to interact and explode made disposal of the weapon difficult?