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List of Chemical Warfare Agents

1. Casualty agents

Blood agents

  • Arsine
  • Cyanogen chloride
  • Hydrogen chloride

Choking agents

  • Chlorine
  • Diphosgene
  • PFIB
  • Phosgene

Nerve agents

Vesicants

  • Distilled mustard
  • Ethyldichloroarsine
  • Lewisite 1
  • Lewisite 2
  • Lewisite 3
  • Methyldichloroarsine
  • Mustard-Lewisite mixture
  • Mustard-T mixture
  • Nitrogen Mustard 1
  • Nitrogen mustard 2
  • Nitrogen mustard 3
  • Phenyldichloroarsine
  • Phosgene oxime
  • Sesqui mustard


2. Harassing agents

Riot control agents

Lachrymators

  • CA
  • CN
  • CNB
  • CNC
  • CNS
  • CS

Sternutators / Vomiting agents

  • DA
  • DC
  • DM (Adamsite)

Incapacitating agents

Depressants

  • Morphine

Psychedelic drugs

  • Agent-15
  • BZ
  • Lysergic acid-25
  • Mescaline
  • Phenylcyclidine
  • Psilocybin

Stimulants

  • Amphetamine
  • Cocaine
  • Dexamphetamine
  • Methamphetamine

3. Toxins

  • Aflatoxin
  • Botulinus toxin
  • Ricin
  • Saxitoxin
  • Trichothecene mycotoxin


Select List of Sources

  • Australia Group, 'Current export controls on materials used in the manufacture of chemical and biological weapons', Australia Group Doc AG/Jun93/Press/Chair/11, Jun. 1993, 25p.
  • Chemical Weapons Convention Verification: Handbook on Scheduled Chemicals (Canada, Aug. 1993), 68p.
  • Compton, J. A. F., Military Chemical and Biological Agents (Telford Press: Caldwell, NJ, 1987), 458p.
  • Hahn, F., Waffen und Geheimwaffen des deutschen Heeres 1933-45 (Bernard & Graefe Verlag: Bonn, 1992), pp. 223-235.
  • House of Commons, Oral Answers to Questions, 9 Feb. 1998, The Parliamentary Debates, Official Record, Sixth Series, Vol. 306, pp. 3-6.
  • Letter Dated 16 December 1987 From the Representative of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Address to the President of the Conference on Disarmament Transmitting A Working Paper Entitled "Information on the Presentation At the Shikhany Military Facility of Standard Chemical Munitions and of Technology for the Destruction of Chemical Weapons At A Mobile Unit", Conference on Disarmament, Document CD/789 (16 Dec. 1987), 54p.
  • Marrs, T. C.; Maynard, R. L. and Sidell, F. R., Chemical Warfare Agents: Toxicology and Treatment (John Wiley & Sons: Chichester, 1996), 243p.
  • Somani, S. M., ed., Chemical Warfare Agents (Academic Press: San Diego, 1992), 443p.
  • Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Chemical and Biological Warfare, Volume I: The Rise of CB Weapons (Almqvist & Wiksell: Stockholm, 1971), 395p.
  • Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Chemical and Biological Warfare, Volume II: CB Weapons Today (Almqvist & Wiksell: Stockholm, 1973), 420p
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