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Nature 460, 950-951 (20 August 2009) | doi:10.1038/460950a; Published online 19 August 2009
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See associated Correspondence: Gross, Nature 461, 340 (September 2009)
Malcolm Dando1
Abstract
As researchers discover more agents that alter mental states, the Chemical Weapons Convention needs modification to help ensure that the life sciences are not used for hostile purposes, says Malcolm Dando.
In October 2002, Chechen rebel fighters held more than 750 people hostage at a Nord-Ost production in a theatre in Moscow. The siege was broken only after special military forces used what the Russian Health Minister, Yuri Shevchenko, later described as a mixture of substances derived from fentanyl — an opiate developed in the 1950s as an anaesthetic.
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