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Weapons of mass destruction [r]: Weapons that cause death or injury not primarily through kinetic energy of projectiles or the detonation of conventional explosives, but rather produce large-scale effects greater than possible with the same weight of explosives weapons; by means heat, blast and radiation from nuclear weapon; poisoning by chemical weapon; infectious disease by biological weapons; or acute or chronic radiation syndromes from radiological weapons. ^[e]
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Acetylcholinesterase [r]: An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of acetylcholine to choline and acetate, causing muscles, ennervated by cholinergic receptors, to relax ^[e]
Acetylcholine [r]: A chemical transmitter in both the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and central nervous system (CNS) in many organisms including humans. ^[e]
Chemical Corps [r]: A branch of military service concerned with detection and decontamination of chemical, biological and radiological agents; smoke generation; and, in the past, offensive chemical warfare and biological warfare ^[e]
Chemical Weapons Convention [r]: Arms control treaty which prohibits the production, use and possession of chemical weapons and related assets. ^[e]
Chemical terrorism [r]: Terrorism that uses the toxic effects of chemicals to kill, injure, or otherwise adversely affect its targets. ^[e]

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BZ [r]: 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate, an incapacitating, generally considered nonlethal chemical weapon whose effects are primarily on mental status ^[e]
Chlorine [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Cl, and atomic number (the number of protons) 17. ^[e]
Cholinesterase inhibitor [r]: Chemicals that block the action of the enzyme cholinesterase, which breaks down the neurotransmitter acetylcholine; continuous presence of acetylcholine causes continuous muscle contraction ^[e]
Dichloroethyl sulfide [r]: The most common form of sulfur mustard "mustard gas" chemical weapon, assigned the Western code HD ^[e]
Nerve agent [r]: Lethal insecticides and chemical weapons that kill by acting as cholinesterase inhibitors, causing muscle contractions that do not release; they are usually organophosphates with the most poisonous containing fluorine ^[e]
- Tabun [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sarin [r]: Lethal, nonpersistent chemical weapon, O-Isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate, of the nerve agent family ^[e]
- Soman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cyclosporin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- VX [r]: Add brief definition or description
Hallucinogen [r]: General group of pharmacological agents classed as psychoactive drugs, which can cause subjective changes in perception, thought, emotion and consciousness. ^[e]
Phosgene [r]: COCl₂, an acid chloride industrial chemical used as a chemical weapon during WWI. ^[e]
Nitrogen mustards [r]: A group of alkylating agents derived from mustard gas, with the sulfur replaced by nitrogen, originally chemical weapons but now used as highly toxic antineoplastic agents and immunosuppressants ^[e]

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Aum Shinrikyo [r]: A Japanese religious organization that conducted weapons of mass destruction operations inside Japan, principally sarin chemical weapon releases in 1994 and 1995 ^[e]
Battle of Iwo Jima [r]: Add brief definition or description
Iran-Iraq War [r]: Add brief definition or description
World War I, poison gas [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Second Battle of Ypres [r]: Add brief definition or description
Unit 731 [r]: Add brief definition or description

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