In connection with the ratification of the Conven tion and the beginning of the destruction of chemical weapons, the determination of chemical warfare agents (CWA) and their degradation products (DP) has become particularly important in the late 1990s. First of all, this is due to that the safety of the person nel and the public need to be ensured during storage, transportation, and destruction of chemical weapons. The latter suggests the implementation of the system for continuous monitoring of the destruction of CWA and the concentration of CWA and products of their degradation in the environment. The derivatives of alkylphosphonic acids (APAs) are among the main DP of organophosphorus nerve agents, while thiodiglycol and sulfur and oxygen containing long chain diols are for blister agents (Fig. 1). In the last decade, a growing number of publications have been devoted to the identification of these compounds by gas chroma tography (GC), HPLC, and capillary electrophoresis. Gas chromatography coupled with mass spectromet ric detection remains one of the most reliable methods for determining agents in most cases due to its high sensitivity and selectivity and the presence of large libraries of mass spectra [1]. However, the determina tion of DP in water samples, water extracts from soil, or biological fluids requires the transfer of compounds from the aqueous phase into the organic phase, fol lowed by derivatization. In those cases, the application of HPLC is more perspective. A conventional spectro photometric detector is of little use in determining CWA and DP because of the lack of chromophoric groups in their molecules. The development of inter faces that allow the combination of HPLC with mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS) greatly expanded the pos sibilities of the method for the identification and quantification of these substances.Achievements, constraints, and prospects of the development of HPLC-MS for the determination of CWA and DP were previously analyzed in several reviews [2][3][4][5]. Applied aspects of the method for determining various hazardous agents, including chemical warfare agents, for the period of 2002-2005 are presented in [2]. A place of HPLC among other chromatographic and electrophoretic methods for the determination of CWA and DP is considered [3][4][5]. We should also note the book, a chapter of which is devoted to the use of HPLC-MS for the determina tion of substances prohibited by the Convention [6]. However, similar works have not been published over the past 5 years. This review summarizes the results of the application of HPLC-MS for the determination of CWA and DP for 13 years have passed since the rat Abstract-This review summarizes the results of high performance liquid chromatography with mass spec trometric detection (HPLC-MS) in the identification of chemical warfare agents and their degradation products, obtained in the last 13 years passed since the ratification of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and ...