Chemicals Warfare Convention

Ironically, the 1993 Chemical Warfare Convention, endorsed by the U.S., prohibited even the use of tear gas (although it remains permissible to use it in... 

Smithson, Amy E., Separating Fact from Fiction The Australia Group and the Chemical Warfare Convention, Washington DC Henry L. Stimson Center (1997). 

Since fentanyl is not listed in any schedules of the Chemical Warfare Convention (CWC), and is traditionally characterized by the rapid onset and short duration of action of 15-30 min of analgesia, it can be legally considered an RCA according to the definition set forth in the CWC. On October 23, 2002, at least 129 of the 800 hostages died in the Moscow Dubrovka Theatre Center when Russian authorities subdued the hostage-takers there by pumping what many believe was fentanyl into the building some believe that a mixture of fentanyl and halothane was used. 

This chapter includes four indices the Alphabetical index, the Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) numbers index, the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) numbers index, and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons key (OPCW) numbers index. OPCW numbers are found in the "Handbook on Chemicals, version 2002," Appendix 2 in Declaration Handbook 2002 for the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction. OPCW numbers were developed to provide an easy method for tracking chemical warfare agents and precursors if CAS numbers were not available. 

A very special and sensitive issue is the production and usage of the warfare chemical agents. The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) which now has 168 member states aims to rid the world of all chemical weapons by 2007. Now three years before the Convention s end date, the promise is seen optimistic. 

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