This article describes a brief history of chemical warfare, which culminated in the signing of the Chemical Weapons Convention. It describes the current level of chemical weapons and the risk of using them. Furthermore, some traditional technology for the development of chemical weapons, such as increasing toxicity, methods of overcoming chemical protection, research on natural toxins or the introduction of binary technology, has been described. In accordance with many parameters, chemical weapons based on traditional technologies have achieved the limit of their development. There is, however, a big potential of their further development based on the most recent knowledge of modern scientific and technical disciplines, particularly at the boundary of chemistry and biology. The risk is even higher due to the fact that already, today, there is a general acceptance of the development of non-lethal chemical weapons at a technologically higher level. In the future, the chemical arsenal will be based on the accumulation of important information from the fields of chemical, biological and toxin weapons. Data banks obtained in this way will be hardly accessible and the risk of their materialization will persist.

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• biologické bojové látky dějiny   MeSH
• chemická válka dějiny   trendy   MeSH
• chemické bojové látky chemie   dějiny   toxicita   MeSH
• chemické látky k potlačení nepokojů chemie   dějiny   toxicita   MeSH
• dějiny 20. století MeSH
• dějiny 21. století MeSH
• dějiny středověku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• mezinárodní spolupráce MeSH
• nanotechnologie trendy   MeSH
• testy toxicity MeSH
• veřejná politika MeSH
• vojenská věda dějiny   MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
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• dějiny 20. století MeSH
• dějiny 21. století MeSH
• dějiny středověku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• historické články MeSH
• přehledy MeSH