The Independent
Leading neuroscientists believe that the UK Government may be about
to sanction the development of nerve agents for British police that
would be banned in warfare under an international treaty on chemical
weapons.
A high-level group of experts has asked the Government to clarify its
position on whether it intends to develop "incapacitating chemical
agents" for a range of domestic uses that go beyond the limited use of
chemical irritants such as CS gas for riot control.
The experts
were commissioned by the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of
sciences, to investigate new developments in neuroscience that could be
of use to the military. They concluded that the Government may be
preparing to exploit a loophole in the Chemical Weapons Convention
allowing the use of incapacitating chemical agents for domestic law
enforcement.
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