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Issue Title: Analysis of Chemicals Relevant to the Chemical Weapons Convention

2014 marks the centennial of the outbreak of World War I-the first war that saw the large-scale use of chemical weapons. Although poisons have been used in warfare for centuries, it was rapid advances in science and engineering and the rise of the modern chemical industry that made the mass production of toxic chemicals possible. The horrors of gas warfare led to the signing of the Geneva Protocol in 1925, which banned the use of \"asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases\" in war, but did not ban the production and stockpiling of chemical agents. Large arsenals containing nerve agents such as Sarin and VX were acquired during the years of the Cold War, these agents surpass the lethality of traditional World War I agents more than a thousand-fold. Tragically, chemical weapons were also used over much of the past century, most extensively during the Iran-Iraq War.

Happy New Year. Sweep up the confetti. The first item on your 1989 agenda will be chemical warfare, the growing danger and how, if at all, to contain it. The only good news about the complications involved is that they will certainly haul a nation of incorrigible political yammerers back from the simplifications and sillinesses of a yearlong political campaign and compel us all to get serious.

On Jan 13, 1992, the government of France hosted the signing ceremony of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which was signed by more than 130 countries. The text of the convention and a chronology of its development are offered.

The newly completed Chemical Weapons Convention has been signed by the US. The convention will improve the security of all nations by eliminating the risk of chemical warfare.