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| - A chemical weapon is an device which deploys deadly chemicals to a target. A common chemical weapon used in ancient Earth wars was mustard gas. The designs for the chemical weapons were present in the databanks on the USS Verdun. In 2163 Commodore Lucian Murat had downloaded the designs that were used by the Human forces on Torgu-Va to make this weapon in their fight against the Tarn. Both Tarn and Human forces used mortars and airplanes to deliver the chemical weapons. (TNG novel: The Forgotten War)
- A chemical weapon (CW) is a device that uses chemicals formulated to inflict death or harm on human beings. They may be classified as weapons of mass destruction though they are separate from biological weapons (diseases), nuclear weapons and radiological weapons (which use radioactive decay of elements). Chemical weapons can be widely dispersed in gas, liquid and solid forms and may easily afflict others than the intended targets. Nerve gas and tear gas are two modern examples.
- Chemical warfare involves using the toxic properties of chemical substances to kill, injure or incapacitate an enemy. Chemical warfare is different from the use of conventional weapons or nuclear weapons because the destructive effects of chemical weapons are not primarily due to any explosive force. The offensive use of living organisms (such as anthrax) is considered to be biological warfare rather than chemical warfare; the use of nonliving toxic products produced by living organisms (e.g., toxins such as botulinum toxin, ricin, or saxitoxin) is considered chemical warfare under the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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| - Chemical warfare involves using the toxic properties of chemical substances to kill, injure or incapacitate an enemy. Chemical warfare is different from the use of conventional weapons or nuclear weapons because the destructive effects of chemical weapons are not primarily due to any explosive force. The offensive use of living organisms (such as anthrax) is considered to be biological warfare rather than chemical warfare; the use of nonliving toxic products produced by living organisms (e.g., toxins such as botulinum toxin, ricin, or saxitoxin) is considered chemical warfare under the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
* Schedule 1 Substances – Have few, if any, legitimate uses. These may only be produced or used for research, medical, pharmaceutical or protective purposes (i.e. testing of chemical weapons sensors and protective clothing). Examples include nerve agents, ricin, lewisite and mustard gas.
* Schedule 2 Substances– Have no large-scale industrial uses, but may have legitimate small-scale uses. Examples include dimethyl methylphosphonate, a precursor to sarin but which is also used as a flame retardant.
* Schedule 3 Substances – Have legitimate large-scale industrial uses. Examples include phosgene and chloropicrin. Both have been used as chemical weapons but phosgene is an important precursor in the manufacture of plastics and chloropicrin is used as a fumigant.
- A chemical weapon is an device which deploys deadly chemicals to a target. A common chemical weapon used in ancient Earth wars was mustard gas. The designs for the chemical weapons were present in the databanks on the USS Verdun. In 2163 Commodore Lucian Murat had downloaded the designs that were used by the Human forces on Torgu-Va to make this weapon in their fight against the Tarn. Both Tarn and Human forces used mortars and airplanes to deliver the chemical weapons. (TNG novel: The Forgotten War) Sometime prior to 2376 on an unknown planet, the Cataclysm was fought with nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. (SCE eBook: Wounds, Book 2) During the Vaadwaur Supremacy invasion of Kobali Prime in 2409-2410, the Vaadwaur developed and deployed a chemical weapon that targeted Kobali exclusively. The Alpha Quadrant Alliance, which had entered the war on the side of the Kobali, was forced to assault the Vaadwaurs' forward operating base to destroy the stocks of gas. (STO - "The Kobali Front" missions: "Looming Shadows", "Hidden Assault", "With Our Last Breath")
- A chemical weapon (CW) is a device that uses chemicals formulated to inflict death or harm on human beings. They may be classified as weapons of mass destruction though they are separate from biological weapons (diseases), nuclear weapons and radiological weapons (which use radioactive decay of elements). Chemical weapons can be widely dispersed in gas, liquid and solid forms and may easily afflict others than the intended targets. Nerve gas and tear gas are two modern examples. Lethal, unitary, chemical agents and munitions are extremely volatile and they constitute a class of hazardous chemical weapons that are now being stockpiled by many nations. (Unitary agents are effective on their own and require no mixing with other agents.) The most dangerous of these are nerve agents GA, GB, and VX, and vesicant (blister) agents which are formulations of sulfur mustard such as H, HT, and HD. All are liquids at normal room temperature, but become gaseous when released. Widely used during the First World War, the effects of so-called mustard gas, phosgene gas and others caused lung searing, blindness, death and maiming. Under the Chemical Weapons Convention (1993), there is a legally-binding, world-wide ban on the production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons and their precursors. Notwithstanding, large stockpiles thereof continue to exist, usually justified as only a precaution against putative use by an aggressor.
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