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The “Advanced Propellant/Additive Development for Gas Generator” project is a collaborative effort between General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD-OTS) and the Naval Air Warfare Center-Weapons Division (NAWCWD). The objectives of this NGP project are to develop new highly efficient, environmentally acceptable, chemically active fire suppressant capabilities based upon solid propellan...

Chemical weapons, like all military technology, are associated with activities of scientists and engineers. However, chemical weapons differ from any other military technology because they were invented, and their first mass use directly developed by famous chemists. The active contribution of engineers and scientists and their organisations in the negotiations on chemical disarmament, includin...

the main aim in this study was to collect the experiences of iranian researchers about sulfur mustard (sm) and provide a guideline for the prevention of abuse for this dangerous agent. we searched valid national and international databases using related key words in the two languages. we found 193 articles which had been published in medical journals. among them, 25 articles had some implicatio...

introduction: sulfur mustard (sm), a toxic alkylating gas, can cause serious long-term pulmonary complications such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd). metabolic syndrome (mets) is one of the important comorbidities of copd. this study was designed to evaluate the frequency of metabolic syndrome in iranian chemical warfare patients (cwps) with copd. materials and methods: thirty cw...

background: sulfur mustard (sm) as a chemical warfare agent, increases permeability of bronchial vessels and damages airway epithelium. sm exposure causes debilitating respiratory complications. this study was designed to evaluate clinical respiratory manifestations, and to compare chest x ray (cxr) and high resolution computed tomography (hrct) scan of chest in sm exposed patients with respira...

On September 22, 1980 Iraqis attacked Iran's air bases and simultaneously entered Iran with six army divisions on three fronts and occupied a vast part of Iranian territories. At that time, Iraqis did not have chemical warfare. But in time, they began to develop an intensive research program to produce and store chemical weapons and used the war fields to test and perfect their chemical warfare...

Organophosphorus (OP) nerve agents represent a class of highly toxic chemical warfare banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention. Nevertheless, in past few years they have been used repeatedly for warfare, assassination and attempted murder. In addition, chemically related OP pesticides were frequently suicide may be deployed terroristic attacks. Therefore, sensitive selective bioanalytical meth...

This is the first longitudinal cohort study of Persian Gulf War US soldiers to examine belief in exposure to chemical and biological weapons before and shortly after combat. A longitudinal sample of n = 1250 male Persian Gulf War US Army soldiers were surveyed 3 to 4 months before and 6 to 10 months after the 1991 War. Six to 10 months after combat, 4.6% of the cohort believed they had been exp...