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Army Awards $156.6 Million Anti-Nerve Gas Agent Contract
May 13, 2013WASHINGTON -- The Army has awarded a $156.6 million contract to the DynPort Vaccine division of Computer Sciences Corp for development of an anti-nerve gas agent that protects against a wide range of nerve gases for up to 60 days. The agent will not be ready to use for at least six years.
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Testing Offers Some Confidence Syria Has Used Chemical Arms: Feinstein
April 26, 2013Analysis of soil and blood samples has given U.S. intelligence agencies moderate to strong levels of confidence that the Bashar Assad regime has used chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war, the New York Times quoted a key lawmaker as saying on Thursday.
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Netherlands Hunts for Sarin Nerve Agent Cache
April 2, 2013Authorities in the Netherlands on Saturday began scouring an area of woodlands for a possible supply of sarin nerve agent based on a tip that resulted in the detention of four individuals, Agence France-Presse reported on Monday.
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U.S. Wants to Move Syrian Chemical Arms to Nearby States for Incineration
Jan. 18, 2013The United States is in talks with the governments in Iraq, Jordan and Turkey on potentially relocating Syrian chemical weapons to protected armed forces installations on their territory for destruction, the Center for Public Integrity reported on Thursday.
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Envoy: Turkey Shares U.S. “Red Line” on Syrian Chemical Arms
Dec. 18, 2012WASHINGTON -- A Syrian chemical weapons attack or loss of control over the dangerous stockpile would be seen by much of the international community as crossing a so-called “red line” for heightened involvement in the Mideast nation’s civil war, Turkey’s ambassador to Washington said on Tuesday.
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How U.S. Might Try to Avert Disaster in Attack on Syrian Chemical Sites
Dec. 17, 2012WASHINGTON -- If the United States or its allies mount an attack against Syria’s chemical arsenal, a combination of tactics and technologies might help reduce the risk of unintended civilian casualties, according to munitions specialists and military targeting experts.
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Israeli Military Prepares for Nerve Agent Threat
Dec. 13, 2012Deployed medical personnel with the Israel Defense Forces are to receive stocks of a drug that can be used to counteract the effects of sarin and other nerve agents, the Times of Israel reported on Tuesday.
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Intelligence Suggests Syria Readying Nerve Agent
Dec. 4, 2012Syrian specialists roughly one week ago started mixing the precursor agents for sarin nerve agent in a potential sign that dictator Bashar Assad could be preparing to mount chemical weapons attacks, Wired reported on Monday, citing an informed anonymous U.S. official.
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Syria Trying to Produce More Sarin, U.S. Believes
Oct. 26, 2012The regime of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is attempting to gain access to large amounts of the precursor materials needed to manufacture sarin, a particularly lethal chemical weapon, Wired magazine reported on Thursday, citing anonymous U.S. officials.
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DARPA Funds Research into Nerve Agent Drug Made Using Tobacco
Sept. 27, 2012The U.S. Defense Department's elite scientific research agency earlier this month authorized $2.7 million in funding to support a Kentucky firm's study into how tobacco plants can be used to grow a countermeasure to nerve agents, Wired reported on Thursday.
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Scientists Develop Highly Effective Enzyme For Attacking Nerve Agents
Sept. 14, 2012Scientists have developed a new enzyme that is enormously effective in countering nerve agents, according to an August American Chemical Science press release.
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Development of Nerve Agent Drug to Continue Under Pentagon Contract
Aug. 13, 2012Development of an experimental drug for defending people against the effects of nerve agents will continue with additional financing from the U.S. Defense Department, product developer PharmAthene said on Thursday.
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