Not long after Congress cut US assistance of Russian programs aimed at destroying chemical weapons stockpiles, Russia has disclosed new details about its former chemical weapons program. In an article published Monday in a magazine of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a Netherlands-based international agency that oversees the 1993 treaty banning chemical weapons, three Russian officials say that Russia had 24 poison gas factories, 6 of which it plans to destroy, and 18 of which it has either converted to nonmilitary use of intends to convert, rather than destroy.