Sentence examples for tons of nerve from inspiring English sources

The United States will also work with Russia to build a facility to destroy tons of nerve agent.

Pochep will process nearly 19 percent of Russia's stockpile, or 7,500 tons of nerve agent used in aircraft-delivered munitions.

"We've never had agent detected outside of the igloos themselves," he said, referring to the structures that house 3,317 tons of nerve and mustard agent, about 12percentt of the nation's stockpile.

Still unaccounted for are hundreds of chemical arms, tons of nerve gas, more than 100 germ weapons and parts for up to four nuclear warheads, which are said to lack only the uranium to fuel them.

Mr. Assad, who has denied using chemical weapons, could begin by actually acknowledging that he has the weapons, which Western nations say amount to hundreds of tons of nerve gas and blister agents.

Mr. Pak told Mr. Bustani that under the plan, former Russian chemical warfare troops would begin to drill holes into 400 tons of nerve gas shells and neutralize their contents using equipment once intended to destroy leaking shells in combat conditions.

North Korea has the globe's third-largest army, 5,000 tons of sarin nerve gas and (the spooks believe) a secret reserve of the smallpox virus.

After first denying that it had ever made VX, Iraq admitted making 3.9 tons of the nerve gas but said it had never placed any in a weapon.

Although Iraq claimed to have destroyed 3.9 tons of VX nerve agent and several hundred tons of precursor chemicals it produced before the gulf war, the commission concluded that Iraq might have retained enough precursor chemicals to produce about 200 tons of VX.

It says Syria's arsenal of chemical weapons is "massive and diverse", comprising "several hundred tons" of the nerve agent sarin and "dozens of tons" of the most toxic known agent, VX.

Today, the Chemical Weapons Convention enters into force in Syria, a victory made manifest by international inspectors on the ground, neck-deep in the urgent business of dismantling nearly 1,000 tons of sarin nerve agent and other poison gasses.