In Udmurtia will destroy the last kilogram of Russian chemical weapons
Enterprise in the village of Kizner in the Udmurt Republic of 27 September 2017 will destroy the last pounds of chemical warfare agents, previously stood on the arms of the USSR, and then Russia. As reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Federal management on safe storage and destruction of chemical weapons work to neutralize chemical warfare agents will be completed a year ahead of schedule.
Chemical weapons as an independent means of mass destruction appeared in the late nineteenth century. The most ambitious of its use occurred in the First world war, and it was then revealed that the use of chemical warfare agents has a low efficiency: the troops had to wait suitable for a gas attack weather conditions since the wind could carry the cloud on their own fighters.
Today chemical weapons are no longer seen by the military as a real deterrent in the battle and, although some countries still are developing it, it is not commercially available.
All accumulated in past years placed on the ammunition storage facilities, and States are forced to annually spend the money to maintain stockpiles in good condition and to inspect chemical weapons.
Despite the strict conditions of storage every year the risk of environmental disaster in the regions of storage of chemical warfare agents is becoming higher. In addition, some experts believe that part of the chemical weapons illegally can get into another country and used there in local military conflicts.
Chemical warfare agents are divided into several types: nerve, skin naivnye, obscheyadovitym, suffocating, and irritating psihodelicheskaya. Some of them are weapons and non-lethal effects and sometimes used by law enforcement, for example, for demonstrations.
The most common chemical warfare substances are lewisite (blister), soman, Tabun, sarin and VX (nerve agents), diphosgene (choking) and chloropicrin (irritant).
In 1993, in Geneva, was opened for signature the “Convention on the prohibition of chemical weapons”. It was joined by most countries of the world, though initially the document was directed at the two States with the largest stockpiles of chemical agents — United States and Russia. At that time, these two countries were owned 99 percent of the world’s chemical weapons stockpiles.